Ensete Glaucum
Ensete Glaucum is an outstanding but little-known banana also known as Musa Nepalensis and Ensete Giganteum, suggesting the plants large size and is synonymous to the legendary Snow Banana Ensete Wilsonii. It grows in China (Yunnan at a height of around 2600-8800ft !!!), Nepal, India, Burma, Thailand and can be seen sometimes in Tibet, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. Ensete Glaucum developes a thick, almost waxlike single trunk with a blue hue with large and again blueish leaves up to (and sometimes exceeding) 10 feet long !! When its in its natural habitat and reaches flowering size, the flowers are stupendously beautiful, like a downward facing water-lily. The fruits are about 5 inches long, filled with large black seeds with very little pulp. It is non-suckering and so after the fruit ripens the whole plant dies down and a new generation originates from the seeds.
