Far away in Africa, a local sausage tree can feed a family. As a result, they don’t seem to be hungry at all. Seeing this scene, some netizens could not help joking: “If I were, I would not want to farm”! So, can this be introduced into our country? Objectively speaking, there is not much connection between sausage and sausage, but the fruit of the sausage tree looks more like sausage, hence the name. As a plant native to Africa, it has long thick stems.
Generally, after three or four years, a sausage tree can reach a height of more than 10 meters. From a distance, it looks like a huge net. But while the fruit of the sausage tree is slightly sweet and tastes like bread with condensed milk, on closer inspection the flowers give off an unpleasant smell, a bit like dead mice. Perhaps because of this, many Africans, despite their love of sausage fruit, are reluctant to plant a sausage tree behind their front house.
By the time they reach maturity, a single fruit can weigh up to seven or eight kilograms, which is comparable to fruits such as durian. When you slice open a sausage fruit, you can see that it contains a lot of starch. Under these conditions, most Africans never went hungry during the famine. But what makes the sausage tree so popular in Africa is that, in addition to its high yield, it’s also drought-resistant and rarely dies. It’s amazing how well you can grow even when you’re unattended.
It is worth mentioning that in order to make more sausage fruit food, many local African people have invented some ways to eat. For example, they pick sausage fruit and put it in a baking bin to remove toxins and give it a distinctive taste. If the fruit is not ripe, it can cause vomiting or diarrhea, or even put you at risk of death.
Of course, some Africans also use sausage fruit to make wine. They also add sugar cane juice to the sausage wine to give it a sweet taste. Let it sit for a week, and you’ve got a nice, aromatic sausage wine. In fact, our country is not known for sausage tree planting many benefits. In the 1950s and 1960s, scientists in our country flirted with the idea of introducing sausage trees from Uganda in Africa. The death rate of sausage trees is greatly increased due to their incompatibility with climate and soil.
If you think sausage trees are just for eating, think again. Many years ago, people in Africa used the fruit of the sausage tree to carry out illegal abortions on pregnant women, because of illegal and irregular medical procedures, which resulted in the death of many pregnant women. For a time, many people had different attitudes about whether to keep the sausage tree. Hundreds of years ago, the leaves and branches of the sausage tree were also used by some Africans on a whim to try to cure malaria and stomach problems, with little success but a breakthrough.
However, in the minds of most people, they also have a special feeling for the sausage tree. This is mainly because during the turbulent war years, because so many young men were forced to fight, many of them ended up dead. In such cases, to keep a reminder for themselves and to call the souls of the dead back home, they would pick ripe fruit and bury it in the ground to serve as the bones of the dead soldiers. Although with the passage of time, this custom gradually disappeared in the river of history, but there is no denying that in a certain era, the appearance of the sausage tree to African people to a great spiritual comfort, but also let them not hungry without farming.
