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![Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii](https://www.glasshouseworks.com/image/cache/data/images12/Musa_Maurellii-500x500.jpg "Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii")
![Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii](https://www.glasshouseworks.com/image/cache/data/images/7p-500x500.jpg "Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii")
![Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii](https://www.glasshouseworks.com/image/cache/data/images25/Musa_maurellii1-500x500.jpg "Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii")
![Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii](https://www.glasshouseworks.com/image/cache/data/images12/Musa_Maurellii2-500x500.jpg "Musa [ensete ventricosum] maurelii")
"Abyssinian Black Banana" While having the thick heavy substance of M. ventricosa, the blackish red leaves flaunt mahogany midribs and margins; purple-carmine underleaf is revealed as leaf unfurls; red-bracted inflorescenceorescence. This is the astounding giant we keep at the patio-pond area here every summer. Come fall the foliage is removed and the tub is carted off into the unheated (but never freezing) porch for the winter where it always unfurls several dramatic bronze leaves for tropical drama while the snow falls outside. If you watch PBS's series on Africa, note stands of this banana around the Eritrean villages where the natives use every part of this plant in their economy. In our experience, this never offsets--the most ordered ornamental form currently as its photo seems to (quite deservedly) crop up in magazines everywhere. Certainly the most easily grown of all the tribe as a container plant--but be sure not to pot in a deep container as the roots grow more outward than directly down. Easiest to maintain in your plant room or hobby greenhouse.
| Taxonomy | |
| Family | Musaceae |
| Plant Details | |
| Cultural Code | TGH CGH |
Some of you grow only indoors, some only in terrariums; many of you have hobby greenhouses; while a growing number of customers live in subtropical or tropical areas of the world. These brief codes are an attempt to suggest whether or not a particular plant will do well in your particular conditions.
If an entry has the cluster HP CGH, this means normal house plant culture will be successful if the plant is given a cool CGH moist location; however if the entry has the cluster CGH HP, you would interpret this to suggest that while Cool Greenhouse conditions are needed for total success with this plant, House Plant conditions will be adequate, while not ideal. If the cluster is HH CGH you would interpret this to mean that while in Zone 8 or below this will be winter hardy outdoor, further north it will need considerable mulch, a cold frame, or a Cool Greenhouse to thrive. And so on.
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