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Ensete ventricosum flowers

Ensete ventricosum flowers
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  • Englerophytum magalismontanum
  • Englerophytum magalismontanum brown young stem
  • Englerophytum magalismontanum mature leaves
  • Englerophytum magalismontanum stem-tip new growth
  • Englerophytum magalismontanum unripe fruit
  • Englerophytum natalense
  • Englerophytum natalense leaves
  • Ensete ventricosum
  • Ensete ventricosum flowers
  • Ensete ventricosum fruit
  • Ensete ventricosum leaf bases
  • Ensete ventricosum leaves
  • Erythrophysa alata
  • Erythrophysa transvaalensis
  • Erythrophysa transvaalensis flowers
  • Erythrophysa transvaalensis fruit
  • Erythrophysa transvaalensis leaves

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The flowers of Ensete ventricosum grow from the middle part of the erect stem in massive, pendulous spikes, up to 3 m long. The male flowers usually occur at the tip and the female or bisexual flowers lower down. Each flower has a single petal, in bisexual ones there are five stamens and a three-chambered, inferior ovary. Large, maroon-coloured bracts shaped like spathes are positioned around the flowers.

Flowering happens late in spring. The spike lasts for about a year. The plant dies after the flowers have turned into fruit.

The photo was taken in January in the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, when flowering on the dying plant on the right was already over (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Wikipedia; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; http://pza.sanbi.org).

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