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Monday

Kigelia Africana or Sausage Tree

This tree has voluptuous flowers of deep red maroon colour, suspended in a bunch from long thin stalks from branches.  Flowering in November. Fruits look like huge gourds or sausages hence the name.
There is a specimen in Pune University.