🌾 Crop
ANX-CROP-0000254
Enset (false banana)
Ensete ventricosum
Also known as Abyssinian Banana (English), Enset (English), Ethiopian Banana (English), False banana (English), Bananier d'Abyssinie (French), Abessinische Banane (German), Ensete (German), Zierbanane (German)
A banana relative native to Ethiopia, cultivated not for its fruit but for its starchy pseudostem and corm, which are fermented into a staple food.
- Species
- Ensete ventricosum
- Family
- Musaceae
- Climate requirements
- Adapted to cool
- Temperature range
- 16-24°C (absolute 8-30°C)
- Rainfall range
- 1100-1500mm (absolute 900-1700mm)
- Altitude range
- 500-3100m
- Soil types
- humid Ethiopian highland climates.
- Soil pH
- 5.6-7.3 (absolute 5-7.5)
Cultivars
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Plant health
Diseases & Pests
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Inputs
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