Posts tagged drought resistance

Enset, A Banana That Bears No Fruit But It’s Abundant Source Of Food

Sep 10th

Posted by Affleap in Gardening

Enset is a banana plant that is quite different from the fruit bearing banana that each one of us is familiar with. It bears no fruit but nevertheless yields abundant source of food. It has been a staple crop in Ethiopia.

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Is Mycorrhiza Beneficial To Successful Reforestation?

Aug 11th

Posted by Affleap in Environment

There is a symbiotic relationship between fungus mycorrhiza with plants and trees. Inoculating the soil in the root zone of tree seedlings with mycorrhiza, it makes the tree seedlings grow faster, increase the seedlings height and make its stem diameter bigger.

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