Ensete superba, Kalluvazha
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5400 x 3615 px | 45.7 x 30.6 cm | 18 x 12.1 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
6 December 2009Location:
thodupuzha keralaMore information:
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Plant 10 ft. - 12 ft. high and the pseudostem 5 ft. - 6 ft. tall, with an enormous swollen base of 7 ft. - 8 ft. in circumference at the base, narrowed to 3 ft. below the leaves. The leaves are bright green on both sides, 5 ft. long, 1½ ft. broad ; free petiole very short, deeply channelled. The leaf sheaths are persistent at the base and leave closely set scars on the corm. The inflorescence is globose at first, 1 ft. in diameter, later drooping and elongating to one third the length of the trunk. The bracts are orbicular, dark brown-red (dull claret-brown), reaching 1 ft. in length and breadth and subtend dense biseriate rows each of 10 - 15 flowers. Ovary white, cylindrical, above an inch long. The outer perianth is whitish, as long as the overy and three-lobed or formed of three loosely coherent segments. The inner perianth is shorter than the outer, tricuspidate with a long, linear central cusp. The fruits are subcoriaceous 3 in. long, 1½ diameter more or less triangular and contain numerous dark brown seeds. The seeds are subglobose but angled by pressure, 1/3 - ½ in. in diameter. The plant dies down to an underground corm in the dry season and forms new leaves at the beginning of the monsoon.