Accession Data
Ensete superbum
Common Name: Cliff Banana
Family: Musaceae
Country of Origin: Western Ghats, Anaimalai Hills and other parts of peninsular India
Uses: fruit and seed are used in the Ayurveda to treat diabetes, leucorrhea, kidney stones, bladder infections2
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 8b-10
Accession #: 201000134
Accession Date: 2010-09-30 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1211
Quantity: 2
Source: Mike Bordelon - Smithsonian
Provenance:
Seed from Smithsonian# 2000147(F) x 1999174(M)
Culture: The plant grows on limestone cliffs, on edges or in crevices It dies back in winter or dry season and resumes next spring from the corm.
Propagation is only by seed, does not produce suckers.2
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Musaceae
Flowering Data:
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References
- Kumar, Jaishanker, Annamalai, Iyer; Ensete superbum (Roxb.) Cheesman: a rare medicinal plant in urgent need of conservation - Current Science, Vol. 98, No. 5, 10 March 2010
- Jungle Garden
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, May 12, 2016.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, May 12, 2016.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Tuesday, 16 July, 2019.
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