Jeff

Thanks everyone.

Hi Frank, E. perrieri is supposed to be closely related to E. ventricosum. The only difference (other than the flower) is that the mid-ribs are supposed to be yellow/green instead of red/purple like ventricosum. My plants definitely do not have the dark red/purple color in the mid-rib but rather start off green at the base and then fade to yellow and then orange part way up the leaf. I don't know much about E. superbum so it's hard for me to make a comparison. I tried growing a couple different kinds of Ensete in Florida but they always died on me so I gave up on them.

These plants still may get taller. The first year they gained some height but mainly the base expanded and got really wide on each of them. I was hoping that once the base enlarged like that, they would start growing taller. I guess only time will tell.

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Jeff in Costa Rica