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Enset (false banana)

Ensete ventricosum

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.

Family

Musaceae

Temperature

16-24°C (absolute 8-30°C)

Rainfall

1100-1500mm (absolute 900-1700mm)

Altitude

500-3100m

Soil pH

5.6-7.3 (absolute 5-7.5)

Soil types

humid Ethiopian highland climates.