Gabe15

The forced suckering method has been used for thousands of years on the cultivated enset of Ethiopia. I think people tend to do it more with 'Maurelii' because it is more common than the less-red form, they are just different color forms of E. ventricosum, but they are the same species. In Ethiopia in one district alone there are over 50 known varieties, so there are likely many many more out there too. There is diversity in the wild populations, and even more diversity in the cultivated populations since they have been grown for food for a very long time.

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