Those wanting to add a striking tropical plant to their garden need look no further than Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii.' If that mouthful doesn't ring a bell, then its common name, red banana, might. I ...

Ethiopia (Wollo, Worebabo and Tehulederae): seed and pseudo-stem and seeds possibly eaten. The trunk is also reported scraped; then buried in soil, at a depth of 1.5 meters, covered with leaves and ...

- large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa ...