Fig. 8. Enset, Ensete ventricossum, in the Misuku Hills of Malawi. Unlike most members of the Musaceae that evolved in Asia, enset is endemic to Africa. It is a major food source for 8 million people in Ethiopia, and may be an uncommon, non-banana host on which FOC evolved (see text) (photo courtesy of R. C. Ploetz).

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