Blue Sausage Fruit, Blue-bean, Dead Man's Fingers Decaisnea fargesii - Decaisnea insignis

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Botanical Name:

Decaisnea fargesii

Family:

Lardizabalaceae

Genus:

Decaisnea

Species:

fargesii

Common Name:

Blue Sausage Fruit, Blue-bean, Dead Man's Fingers

Height:

15-25 feet

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Decaisnea fargesii

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Characteristics

Ornamental Fruit

Growing Info, follow in order:

Scarification: Soak in hot tap water.

Stratification: cold stratify for 90 days.

Germination: sow seed 3/8" deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed.

In a Nutshell:

* Decaisnea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lardizabalaceae, native to eastern Asia, from China west to Nepal and south to Myanmar.

The genus comprises one or two species, depending on taxonomic opinion. Decaisnea insignis (Griffith) Hook.f. & Thomson was described from Nepal, and is sometimes restricted to the plants occurring in the Himalaya, with Chinese plants distinguished as Decaisnea fargesii Franchet. The only cited distinction (e.g. Bean 1973, Rushforth 1999) between the plants from the two regions is the fruit colour, yellow-green in D. insignis and bluish in D. fargesii. This is of little significance and the two are now combined under the older name D. insignis by some authors (e.g. Flora of China).

* They are deciduous shrubs or small trees growing to 5-8 m tall with trunks up to 20 cm diameter. The leaves are pinnate, 60-90 cm long, with 13-25 leaflets, each leaflet 7-15 cm long and 5-10 cm broad. The flowers are produced in drooping panicles 25-50 cm long, each flower greenish-yellow, 3-6 cm diameter, with six sepals and no petals. The fruit is a soft greenish-yellow to bluish pod-like follicle 7-10 cm long and 2-3 cm diameter, filled with an edible transparent glutinous jelly-like pulp containing numerous flat black seeds 1 cm diameter. more...

* These shrubs or small trees are mostly grown for the odd looking blue fruits. They are quite easy to grow and make an awesome display when loaded with sausages!

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