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List of banana cultivars. Left to right: plantains, Red, Latundan, and Cavendish bananas. The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. Almost all modern cultivated varieties ( cultivars) of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, Musa acuminata and ...
Chiquita Brands International. Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United ...
Musa ingens. The plant species Musa ingens, also known as the giant highland banana or Oem, [ 2] is the physically largest member of the family Musaceae and the only member of the section Ingentimusa. Growing in the tropical montane forests of New Guinea - Arfak Mountains Regency in Indonesia, its leaves can reach a length of 5 meters (16 feet ...
Ensete ventricosum, commonly known as enset or ensete, Ethiopian banana, Abyssinian banana, [3] pseudo-banana, false banana and wild banana, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the banana family Musaceae. The domesticated form of the plant is cultivated only in Ethiopia, where it provides the staple food for approximately 20 million people.
Hard to tell the real from banana leaves. Review of Egypt Papyrus Museum. Reviewed September 14, 2014. Very interesting seeing how papyrus paper is made. Hard to know what is reals versus fake and everyone is selling so called genuine papyrus. Date of experience: September 2014. Ask Brett C about Egypt Papyrus Museum.
5 Things That Happen to Your Body If You Eat Bananas Every Day. 1. You may have more energy. Registered dietitian , says that bananas are a great source of a variety of minerals, fiber and ...
Very good shop in the Funchal City Market: the Mercado dos Lavradores which specialises in plants, seeds and bullbs. 2. Re: best place to buy plants, seeds and bulbs. Many of the flower shops around the City sell bulbs and seeds for tropical flowers.
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry [ 1] – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with ...