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Gabe15 · 08-14-2005, 10:25 PM

Ensete ventricosum is a species native to Africa, "Ensete maurelii" is just a redder cultivated form of Ensete ventricosum and should be called Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'. Ensete superbum is a whole 'nuther species all together native to India.

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