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Ensete
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
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Ensete superbum at the United States Botanic Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Monocots
Clade:
Commelinids
Order:
Zingiberales
Family:
Musaceae
Genus:
Ensete Bruce
Species
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Ensete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the three genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important food crop in Ethiopia.[1][2][3]
^RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
^"Uses of Enset". The 'Tree Against Hunger': Enset-Based Agricultural Systems in Ethiopia. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1997. Archived from the original on 19 August 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
Ensete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the three genera in the banana family, Musaceae...
Ensete glaucum, the snow banana, has also been classified as Musa nepalensis, Ensete giganteum, or Ensete wilsonii. This gigantic monocarpic herbaceous...
Ensete ventricosum, commonly known as enset or ensete, Ethiopian banana, Abyssinian banana, pseudo-banana, false banana and wild banana, is a species...
bananas. Members of the genus Ensete, such as the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum) of Africa are...
the Ensete Culture Complex area... the life of the Gurage is enmeshed with various uses of ensete, not the least of which is nutritional. Ensete can be...
Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-01-19 Musa lasiocarpa (the basionym of Ensete lasiocarpum) was originally described and published in Journal de Botanique...
Ensete superbum is a species of banana from India. The plant is well-known from the Western Ghats, Anaimalai Hills, some other South Indian hills in Dindigul...
trees. In most treatments, the family has three genera, Musa, Musella and Ensete. Cultivated bananas are commercially important members of the family, and...
cuisine, one would use kocho, a thick flatbread made from the ensete plant. An ensete leaf may be used as a garnish. Though not considered a delicacy...
(Epiphyllum), gingers (both Alpinia and Hedychium) and bananas both ornamental (Ensete) and edible (Musa). Includes several species and cultivars of Indian lotus...
consumption of a dish of ensete, butter, and red pepper. During this ritual, the victim's head is covered with a drape, and he eats the ensete ravenously while...
meters. Ensete flour constitutes the staple food of the local people. Taro, yams, and sweet potatoes are commonly grown in the same region as the ensete. The...
(1999–2008). "Musa basjoo". The Musaceae: An annotated list of the species of Ensete, Musa and Musella. "Banans Raras – Musa basjoo". Retrieved 23 November 2013...
Cuisine of Uganda List of African dishes Plantain Banana cultivar groups Ensete Musa balbisiana Randy C. Ploetz; Angela Kay Kepler; Jeff Daniells; Scot...
Goeppertia and Stromanthe), is closely related to such groups as Alpinia, Ensete, Canna, Curcuma, Heliconia, Musa and Zingiber. The specific epithet leuconeura...
finger millet were domesticated in Ethiopia by 3000 BC, along with noog, ensete, and coffee. Other plant foods domesticated in Africa include watermelon...
(1996), "Creating Landrace Diversity: The Case of the Ari People and Ensete (Ensete ventricosum) in Ethiopia", Redefining Nature, Routledge, pp. 233–268...
crop domesticated in the Ethiopian highlands is coffee. In addition, khat, ensete, noog, teff and finger millet were also domesticated in the Ethiopian highlands...
coracana 4,000? east African lowlands vegeculture of Dioscorea cayennensis and Ensete ventricosum poorly documented 7) Near East Hordeum vulgare, Triticum spp...
make use of the false banana plant (enset, Ge'ez: እንሰት ïnset), a type of ensete. The plant is pulverized and fermented to make various foods, including...
considered by some authorities to be a taxonomic synonym of the genus Ensete Musella, Georgia, U.S. town in the state of Georgia Lino Musella, Italian...
included in the family Musaceae, which includes the bananas (e.g. Musa, Ensete and so on). However, the APG system of 1998, and its successor, the APG...
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