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A tree scientists believe may hold the key to giving food security to millions of people across east Africa has flowered for the first time at Kew Gardens. The Ethiopian enset will produce a ...

Enset (Ensete ventricosum), an African relative of the much-beloved banana plant, is flowering inside of Kew Gardens' Temperate House, marking the very first time this extraordinary plant has produced ...