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false bananas

Ensete

Ensete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the two genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important food crop in Ethiopia.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Abyssinian banana

speciesEnsete ventricosum

rock banana

speciesEnsete superbum

Ensete glaucum

speciesEnsete glaucum

Ensete homblei

speciesEnsete homblei

Madagascar banana

speciesEnsete perrieri

Ensete livingstonianum

speciesEnsete livingstonianum

Kluay Pa Banana

speciesEnsete lecongkietii

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

false bananas in Enquiry into Plants

Enquiry into Plants

Theophrastus; F. Wimmer (ed.) · 1813 · p.614

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83448.