Fruit
Curare Enano
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Curare Enano is a dwarf plantain type—shorter pseudostems for wind-prone or smallholder plots, still producing cooking-quality starchy fruit. Easier harvest height; bunch traits follow the clone. Valuable where tall plantains lodge in storms. Manage as other plantains culinarily; agronomy gains are the point. Green and ripe cookery unchanged. Tissue-culture clean stock helps disease management. Label dwarf habit for growers, not a different flavour species.
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History
Dwarf plantain selections including Curare Enano types aided smallholder wind resilience.
Central American programmes evaluated Curare Enano habit and yield.
Distribution of dwarf plantains expanded in development projects.
Curare Enano remained a referenced dwarf cooking banana.