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Musa acuminata

Authority Colla Family Liliopsida:Zingiberidae:Zingiberales:Musaceae Synonyms Common names Editor Ecocrop code 7848

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION A herbaceous plant with a fleshy, watery stem made up of large, spirally arranged, overlapping leaf bases called sheaths. The plant stands erect, 1.5-6 m tall and the stem has a diameter of up to 30 cm at the base. Leaves are 1-2 m long and up to 60 cm wide. The inflorescence is horizontal or pendulous. Fruits may be 10-25 cm long, green, yellow or brown, cylindric or angled, and seeded or seedless. USES It is mainly grown for its edible fruits. The ripe fruit is eaten fresh, baked, fried, or roasted and is made into a type of vinegar, and it also have medicinal properties. Young stalks and leaves are fed to livestock and leaves are used for wrapping foods, for cooking and as plates. The underground stem can be eaten as a vegetable. KILLING T Depending on the cultivar banana may be killed by frost and damage when the temperature falls below 7-12°C for more than 12 hours or it may withstand
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SOURCES (M. acuminata Colla) (AA & AAA genomes) Sims D (pers. comm.) Rehm S 1991 pp 181-185 [TEMP, LIG, RAIN, DRA, PH] Rice R 1990 pp 65-70 [TEMP, TEXT, DRA, FER, PH] Landon J 1984 pp 280 284 292 [TEXT, DRA, DEP, PH, FER, SAL, TEMP] Doorenbos J 1979 pp 73 Samson J 1986 pp 139-189 [TEMP, LIG, RAIN, LIMIT, PH] Roecklein J 1987 pp 199 [USE] Eswaran H 1986 Kozlowski T 1977 pp 448 Williams C 1979 pp 21-37 [TEMP, RAIN, LIMIT, TEXT, DRA, DEP, PH] Turner D 1985 [DEP, USE, RAIN, KTMP, TEMP, PHO, LIG, DRA, PH, SAL, TEXT, FER, LIMIT] Hackett C 1982 pp 98 [FER, PHO, DEP, PH, TEXT, TEMP] Purseglove J 1972 pp 345-377 [TEMP, LIG, RAIN, TEXT, DRA, FER] Nair P 1980 pp 129-135 [RAIN, TEMP, TEXT, FER, DRA, USE] Van Waveren E 1993 pp 55 Hensleigh T 1988 pp 234-243 [PH, DRA, SAL, TEMP, KTMP, RAIN, LIMITS, USE]