Gabe15

I have never eaten the corm or tried to extract pseudostem starch, but I'd love to try if ever given the chance. I've never been able to grow one big enough to sacrifice, the few times I tried growing them in Hawaii, they got ravaged by corm weevils very quickly, but I'll try again someday.

However, the ones cultivated in Ethiopia as a crop are actually domesticated and quite different in eating quality from the wild types, and I suspect the very few varieties available in the horticultural trade are not of desirable eating quality, especially anything grown from seed. There are many dozens of cultivars grown there which are all clonally propagated to maintain their quality, and they are said to be far less bitter than the wild ones among other positive attributes. It's a goal of mine to one day travel to the Ethiopian highlands and see Enset culture.

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Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.