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Old 01-24-2007, 08:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Golden Gate Park Banana
Hi, There's a clump of banana plants in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA right by the Conservatory of Flowers. When I first saw them a few months ago I had no idea what they were. Now it looks to me to be some kind of Ensete. However Ensete isn't supposed to produce suckers, so I'm thinking maybe they planted a bunch of them close together. Can anybody identify what this is?
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Old 01-24-2007, 08:35 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Ensete glaucum.The so called snow banana.
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Old 01-24-2007, 10:08 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Beautiful picture Adrian. Thanks for sharing it.
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Old 01-24-2007, 10:44 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Ensete glaucum.The so called snow banana.
I disagree. It looks to me like someone threw a handful of Ensete ventricosum seeds on the ground. Ensete glaucum is called so because it has a bluish tint from the heavy wax content (gluacum=blue). Although this has green bracts and no red, they tend to be very variable in color, and also growing conditions play a major role in the color or a plant.
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I have heard of that clump of Ensete ventricosum being there for quite a while in GG park. It seems like it would have flowered out by now, unless it is producing viable seeds or clumping.
Up here in a town called Fortuna(CA) there was a single E.ventricosum that produced short fat orange bananas, but I never got to check to see if they had seeds.
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Thanks for the replies. Ensete ventricosum it is then? I thought it looked particularly impressive. I gotta go by there and check out the development of the flowers and take more pictures!
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This picture is of me with a flowering E. ventricosum at Quail last summer. The ground was littered with literally hundreds of seeds, I collected a few handfuls. Also there was some fruit still hanging on the bunch and I collected some seeds from those too.
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This picture is of me with a flowering E. ventricosum at Quail last summer. The ground was littered with literally hundreds of seeds, I collected a few handfuls. Also there was some fruit still hanging on the bunch and I collected some seeds from those too.
Nice picture, Gabe. That's a nice place. Where is it? Any other interesting plants there?

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