4 Wild Banana Seeds - Ensete ventricosum - South African Indigenous Evergreen Tree

Ensete ventricosum Seeds

Wild Banana; Wildepiesang

This relative of the edible banana is a valuable landscaping plant. Its form, texture and large leaves with conspicuous red midribs, create a lush, tropical effect. Ensete ventricosum is a large, fleshy-stemmed plant with a head of banana-like leaves. The plant grows between 6 and 12 m high. The species name is derived from the Ethiopian name for banana and there are 7 species in the genus, most of which occur in the Old World tropics.