Banana plants, both Musa and Ensete, are some of the coolest plants to grow in pots on decks, patios, and porches. They bring ...

Enset (Ensete ventricosum), an African relative of the much-beloved banana plant, is flowering inside of Kew Gardens' Temperate House, marking the very first time this extraordinary plant has produced ...

Ethiopia (Wollo, Worebabo and Tehulederae): seed and pseudo-stem and seeds possibly eaten. The trunk is also reported scraped; then buried in soil, at a depth of 1.5 meters, covered with leaves and ...

Scientists in a new study revealed that the crop from the plant enset (ensete ventricosumsay), a staple in Africa's Ethiopia, could be a new superfood with the potential to feed over 100 million ...

The other day I watched an instructive TV program, "Inochi no Kusa no Kabuwake (Multiplying the Roots of Life)" on NHK. Sidama people in the southern part of Ethiopia live on ensete, banana-shaped ...