Ensete ventricosum
'Green Stripe'

Ensete ventricosum
'Green Stripe' Hort.

Accepted name Ensete ventricosum (F. M. J. Welwitsch) E. E. Cheesman, Kew Bulletin 2 (2): 101 (1947) and R. E. D. Baker & N. W. Simmonds, Kew Bulletin 8 (3): 405 (1953) with correction in Kew Bulletin 8 (4): 574 (1953).
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References Stokes Tropicals.
Comments A trade name used briefly by Stokes Tropicals in the USA for all-green seedlings of Ensete ventricosum.  However, it was later found that the seedlings lost their distinctiveness and developed a red petiole & midrib when grown under higher light intensity.

See also Ensete ventricosum 'Red Stripe'.





 


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