Ensete Ventricosum (E

Ensete Ventricosum (E

Ensete ventricosum (E. edule) Musaceae Indigenous age. FLOWERS: In large hanging heads Ag: Gangi 2–3 m long, the white flowers with 1 Am: Enset, Guna-guna, Koba petal protected by large dark red bracts, Eng: Wild banana Gr: Aset, Koba 5 stamens produce sticky pollen. FRUIT: Hd: Wesa Although the small yellow clusters look like Kf: Kocho normal bananas they are not edible. Each Km: Wese leathery fruit, about 9 cm long, contains Or: Koba, Weke, Wese, Worke Wt: Uta, Yecha many hard seeds, brown‑black to 2 cm long with only a thin layer of pulp. The whole Ecology plant dies down after fruiting. Like the common banana, this fleshy perennial which is tree‑like is a giant Propagation herb. Outside Ethiopia it also grows in Suckers are normally used, but seedlings Cameroon, the Sudan, East and Central can be raised too. Africa and south to South Africa. In Ethiopia, it grows in wet upland valleys and Seed ravines and along streams in the forests of Seed are contained in the finger‑like fruit lower mountain slopes, 1,000–2,700 m. In and freed on ripening. south‑central Ethiopia enset is extensively Treatment: No treatment required. cultivated for food up to 3,000 m in Moist and Wet Weyna Dega and Dega Management agroclimatic zones in nearly all regions. Fast growing. Uses Remarks Food (stems, rootstock), medicine (stem Ensete differs from Musa, the true banana, decoction), ornamental, soil conservation, in the terminal head of flowers, its large fibres (stem, leaf, midrib), thatch (leaves), seed and by dying after fruiting. The leaf beads (seeds). blades make a good durable thatch and the midrib a strong fibre for rope or sacking. Description A meal or flour is made from the pulp A leafy herb 6–12 m, swollen below, the inside the stem and rootstock. Pollination “false stem” formed by the leaf bases. is commonly brought about by bats LEAVES: Large leaves grow in spirals, each transferring the sticky pollen. one to 6 m long and 1 m wide, bright green with a thick pink‑red midrib and a short red stalk. The leaf blades tear with 234 | Useful Trees and Shrubs of Ethiopia The Species | 235.

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