Ensete ventricosum latin
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false banana

Ensete ventricosum 'Atropurpureum'

Ensete ventricosum 'Green Stripe'

Red false banana (Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii', syn.

Ensete ventricosum 'Rubra' (syn.

It can also refer to members of the genus Ensete, like the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum).

After being originally identified on a close relative of banana, Ensete ventricosum, in Ethiopia in the 1960s, BXW emanated in Uganda in 2001 affecting all types of banana cultivars.

Neighbouring beds flaunt the sail-like foliage of bananas, such as red-leafed Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii’, together with the elephantine shields of Alocasia macrorrhiza, Xanthosoma sagittifolium 'Chartreuse Giant’, and the sooty Colocasia esculenta 'Jet Black Wonder’.

Ensete ventricosum 'Maurellii' If the plain species ( if I can call it plain ) is impressive and essential, than this is MORE than essential - in my view this is one of the finest foliage plants in the world.