Decaisnea fargesii, the blue sausage fruit,[3] blue bean shrub,[4] or dead men's fingers,[5] is a member of the family Lardizabalaceae, and is native to Nepal, Tibet and China.

[2] It is a deciduous shrub that grows to 4 m tall[3] and broad, but may achieve 8 m (26 ft) eventually.

It has divided leaves up to 90 cm (35 in) long, but its main attraction is the pendant bean-like pods, which appear in autumn, and are an unusual blue-grey colour.

The species was first described in 1892 by French botanist Adrien René Franchet.

[1][2] Both the online Flora of China[8] and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)[9] do not consider this a separate species from Decaisnea insignis, but Plants of the World Online[2] does.