Musa balbisiana
| Musa balbisiana | |
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| The fruit of Musa balbisiana, showing numerous seeds. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Musaceae |
| Genus: | Musa |
| Species: | M. balbisiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Musa balbisiana Colla 1820 |
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Musa balbisiana is a species of wild banana native to South Asia. It is one of the ancestors of modern cultivated bananas along with Musa acuminata. It grows lush leaves in clumps and grows with a more upright habit than most cultivated bananas. Flowers grow in inflorescences coloured red to maroon. The fruit are between blue and green. They are considered inedible because of the seeds they contain. It may be assumed that wild bananas used to be cooked and eaten or agriculturalists would not have developed the cultivated banana.[1]
Seeded Musa balbisiana are called "butuhan" ('with seeds') in the Philippines.[2] Natural parthenocarpic clones occur through polyploidy and produce edible bananas. Examples of which are wild Saba Bananas.[3]
They were first described in 1820 by the Italian botanist Luigi Aloysius Colla.[4]
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ^ Musa balbisiana[dead link]
- ^ "Progenitors of Edible Bananas". Guide to Growing Bananas, http://www.bananacrop.com/.+11/01/2010. http://www.bananacrop.com/2010/01/progenitors-of-edible-bananas-in.html. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ Michel H. Porcher; Prof. Snow Barlow (19/07/2002). "Sorting Musa names". The University of Melbourne, [1]. http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Musa.html. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- ^ "Musa paradisiaca". http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~drc/mparadisiaca.htm
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