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Ensete ventricosum

Description
Life form	herb	Physiology	evergreen, single stem
Habit	erect	Category	vegetables, materials, ornamentals/turf, medicinals & aromatic
Life span	perennial	Plant attributes	grown on small scale

Ecology
	Optimal		Absolute			Optimal	Absolute
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Soil depth	medium (50-150 cm)	shallow (20-50 cm)
Temperat. requir.	16	24	8	30	Soil texture	medium, organic	heavy, medium, light, wide, organic
Rainfall (annual)	1100	1500	900	1700	Soil fertility	high	moderate
Latitude	5	-	20	30	Soil Al. tox
Altitude	---	---	500	3100	Soil salinity	low (<4 dS/m)	low (<4 dS/m)
Soil PH	5.6	7.3	5	7.5	Soil drainage	well (dry spells)	well (dry spells)
Light intensity	very bright	very bright	very bright	clear skies

Climate zone	tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar)	Photoperiod	short day (<12 hours)
Killing temp. during rest	-2	Killing temp. early growth	-2
Abiotic toler.		Abiotic suscept.
Introduction risks.

Cultivation
			Min	Max
Product. system	home garden, small scale (manual)	Crop cycle	365	365
Cropping system	Subsystem	Companion species	Level of mechanization	Labour intensity
	sole cropping		low	medium
	inter-cropping	Zea mays, Brassica oleracea var. capitata, Colocasia esculenta, Phaseolus sp. Solanum tuberosum	low	high
	inter-cropping	Persea americana, Coffea arabica, Citrus sp.	low	medium

(at most All5102550100)

Uses
Main use	Detailed use	Used part
food & beverage	vitamins	bark
food & beverage	minerals	bark
food & beverage	starch	bark
animal food (feed)	vitamins	entire plant
animal food (feed)	minerals	entire plant
animal food (feed)	starch	entire plant
material	fibres	leaves
medicinal	muscular/skeletal applications	entire plant
medicinal	genitourinary system applications	leaves
medicinal	endocrine system applications	leaves
medicinal	endocrine system applications	flowers
environmental	ornamental/turf	entire plant