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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...
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    Ensete ventricosum, commonly known as enset or ensete, Ethiopian banana, Abyssinian banana, pseudo-banana, false banana and wild banana, is a species...
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    bananas. Members of the genus Ensete, such as the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum) of Africa are...
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    Jain Ensete davyae (Stapf) Cheesman (as M. davyae Stapf) Ensete gilletii (De Wild.) Cheesman (as M. gilletii De Wild. or M. martretiana A.Chev.) Ensete glaucum...
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    cuisine replaces this with kocho, a thick flatbread made of the ensete plant. An ensete leaf may be also used as a garnish. Though not considered a delicacy...
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  • Ensete glaucum, the snow banana, has also been classified as Musa nepalensis, Ensete giganteum, or Ensete wilsonii. This gigantic monocarpic herbaceous...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-01-19 Musa lasiocarpa (the basionym of Ensete lasiocarpum) was originally described and published in Journal de Botanique...
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    trees. In most treatments, the family has three genera, Musa, Musella and Ensete. Cultivated bananas are commercially important members of the family, and...
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  • Ensete perrieri, or the Madagascar banana, is a species of banana exclusively found in western Madagascar. The Madagascar banana is listed as critically...
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    Goeppertia and Stromanthe), is closely related to such groups as Alpinia, Ensete, Canna, Curcuma, Heliconia, Musa and Zingiber. The specific epithet leuconeura...
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    (Epiphyllum), gingers (both Alpinia and Hedychium) and bananas both ornamental (Ensete) and edible (Musa). Includes several species and cultivars of Indian lotus...
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    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...
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    bread-like fermented food made from chopped and grated ensete pulp. The pseudo-stem of the ensete plant contains a pith that is collected, pulped, and mixed...
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    (konjac) Colocasia esculenta (taro) Eleocharis dulcis (Chinese water chestnut) Ensete spp. (enset) Nymphaea spp. (waterlily) Pteridium esculentum Sagittaria spp...
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  • are native to Europe, North Asia, and North America) Finger millet Teff Ensete Watermelon Noug Coffee Khat African rice Fonio Pearl millet Sorghum Cowpea...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    combined into the single family Musaceae. Banana-families Musa (Musaceae) Ensete (Musaceae) Ravenala madagascariensis (Strelitziaceae) Strelitzia (Strelitziaceae)...
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    (1999–2008). "Musa basjoo". The Musaceae: An annotated list of the species of Ensete, Musa and Musella. "Banans Raras – Musa basjoo". Retrieved November 23,...
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    Some species of irises (Iris spp.) Romulea Musaceae Bananas (Musa spp.) Ensete spp. (enset) Rhizome Root vegetable Tuber Pate, John; Dixon, Kingsley; Pate...
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    pea Lathyrus tuberosus Elephant foot yam Amorphophallus paeoniifolius Ensete Ensete ventricosum Giant swamp taro Cyrtosperma merkusii Giant taro Alocasia...
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    crop domesticated in the Ethiopian highlands is coffee. In addition, khat, ensete, noog, teff and finger millet were also domesticated in the Ethiopian highlands...
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    (1996), "Creating Landrace Diversity: The Case of the Ari People and Ensete (Ensete ventricosum) in Ethiopia", Redefining Nature, Routledge, pp. 233–268...
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    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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    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...
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    finger millet were domesticated in Ethiopia by 3000 BC, along with noog, ensete, and coffee. Other plant foods domesticated in Africa include watermelon...
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    Banana (Musa spp.) Breadfruit Calabash Cherry Cocopalm Durian (Durio spp.) Ensete Fig Ice-cream bean Jackfruit Mango Panama-hat palm Papaya (Carica papaya)...
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  • Morren, not indigenous, cultivated, naturalised Family: Musaceae, Genus Ensete Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman, indigenous Family: Strelitziaceae, Genus...
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