Filed As:
Musaceae
Ensete glaucum (Roxb.) Cheesman
Musaceae
Ensete glaucum (Roxb.) Cheesman
Common Names:
virgen
virgen
Location:
Philippines. Cavite. Cavite Province, Luzon.
Philippines. Cavite. Cavite Province, Luzon.
Description:
3 to 4 m high, the basal part usually much swollen, and produces no suckers, the plant dying after flowering. The infructescence is pendulous, up to 80 cm long and 30 cm in diameter, the large and conspicuous bracts are imbricate, persistent, and quite cover the fruits. The fruits are oblong-obovoid, irregularly and slightly 3-angled, angles rounded, green, glaucous, with faint longitudinal veins, 9 to 11 cm long, 3.5 to 4 cm in diameter, obtuse, sessile, narrowed below, the pericarp about 1.5 mm thick, the pulp very scanty, white, inedible, the seeds large, globose, black, about 12 mm in diameter. See Philip. Agr. Review 6 (1913) No. 9, t. 1 for a photographic reproduction of the habit of this species there characterized as "an unidentified wild species.".
3 to 4 m high, the basal part usually much swollen, and produces no suckers, the plant dying after flowering. The infructescence is pendulous, up to 80 cm long and 30 cm in diameter, the large and conspicuous bracts are imbricate, persistent, and quite cover the fruits. The fruits are oblong-obovoid, irregularly and slightly 3-angled, angles rounded, green, glaucous, with faint longitudinal veins, 9 to 11 cm long, 3.5 to 4 cm in diameter, obtuse, sessile, narrowed below, the pericarp about 1.5 mm thick, the pulp very scanty, white, inedible, the seeds large, globose, black, about 12 mm in diameter. See Philip. Agr. Review 6 (1913) No. 9, t. 1 for a photographic reproduction of the habit of this species there characterized as "an unidentified wild species.".
Other:
Specimen Notes: [Record databased by volunteers in the DIGIVOL Crowdsourcing Platform. Imported to NYBG database in 2024.]
Specimen Notes: [Record databased by volunteers in the DIGIVOL Crowdsourcing Platform. Imported to NYBG database in 2024.]
Identifiers:
NY Barcode: 04354810
GUID: 88407b9e-84c8-4895-8845-8d7af95bc9b5
NY Barcode: 04354810
GUID: 88407b9e-84c8-4895-8845-8d7af95bc9b5