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Old 05-21-2008, 10:35 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Default Re: Are Ensete superbum/Ensete maureli/Ensete ventricosum the same?

I think that plat is around 5-6 years old. They grow quite rapidly in the right conditions.
Didn't you say earlier that you live in S.Florida before? I have heard that they don't do well there. The one in the picture was taken in the highlands of Mexico where it frosts in the winter, and has pretty cold rain in the summer, so it's more of a subtropical environment. On the same trip there was Ensete ventricosum at lower elevations(more tropical), but they looked terrible. Ensete glaucum also get's fairly big, but withstands tropical heat, and is really easy to sprout from seed. Also Musa 'Saba' gets huge, so if that's the effect you want you might want to check out those two.
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