Resources Tagged: Banana

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  1. Banana Passionfruit

    The passionfruit family certainly has its surprises.ECHO East Africa has obtained seed from the banana passionfruit: Passiflora tarminiana from Kenya. Originally from the highlands of South America, this fruit is more often grown as an ornamental than for fruit. Like other passionfruit, the plant...
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  2. Musa balbisiana - Lotus banana

    Edible portion : Stem, Flowers, Fruit, Buds, Seeds, Roots A large herb. It grows 3-10 m tall. It keeps growing from year to year by re-growing new stalks from the underground root stock. The leaves are green and 3 m long. The flowers are purple. The fruit are pale yellow. They are 3 sided and 8...
    Lotus Banana Banana FPI Edible Flowers Edible Seeds Roots Plant Information Food Plants Indigenous Food Pl...

  3. Bananas Are More Than Bananas Presentation

    2022-08-26 Overview of the amazing and versatile banana plant, with mention of banana origins, propagation techniques,management strategies, and the many uses of this plant's diverse parts.
    Banana Plantains Musa Asia

  4. Producing Healthy Plantain and Banana Suckers - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Instead of planting suckers directly, you can grow many new healthy plants from each bulb. Learn how to disinfect the bulbs using a natural solution and place them in moist sawdust in a germination box. From one bulb you can get at least 50 healthy suckers that...
    Banana Plantains Plant Propagation Sustainable Hortic...

  5. Cryopreservation of Musa Germplasm

    2009-01-01 Bananas and plantains (Musa species) are important food staples in the tropics and subtropics.Over 400 million people throughout the developing countries of the tropics and subtropics are dependent on these crops, as both a staple food and an important commodity for marketing locally and...
    Banana Cryopreservation Musa Germplasm

  6. Musa x paradisiaca - Banana

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable, Stalk, Corm, Root, Bud These are the main group of cultivated bananas. They can be classed into diploid, triploid and tetraploid kinds with variousamounts of the A or B parents. They grow 2-9 m high. They are large non woody herbs with broad long leaves....
    Banana Plantains Musa x paradisiaca Fruits FPI Plant Information Edible Flowers Vegetables Roots

  7. Musa acuminata - Banana

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Flowers, Flower stalk, Stem The banana false stems usually have black marks on them. The canal of the leaf stalk is like an open drain. There are dry flapswhere the leaf stalk joins the false stem. The leaves are paddle shaped. These are diploid bananas. They can be seeded...
    Banana Musa acuminata Fruits Edible Flowers FPI Plant Information

  8. Breadfruit Banana Bread

    Breadfruit Banana

  9. Potentially Important Food Plants of the Philippines

    2019-03-20 This book is designed as a simple introduction to the more common food plants of the Philippines. It is hoped people will take greater pride and interest in these plants and become confident and informed about how to grow and use them. Many of the local food plants that occur in every country are...
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  10. Management of Root Mealybugs

    Abstract,Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems, 2010 Soil ameliorants, botanicals, chemical insecticides and fungal bio-agents were screened against banana root mealybug, Geococcus spp. Among the soil ameliorants, application of sodium silicate and calcium oxide at the time of planting...
    Mealybug Banana