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Fam.: Musaceae / Banana Fam.  

Synon.:  Musa cavendishii  LAMB.

Genus:  Musa  L.
 

Authors:
   COLLA:  Luigi (Aloysius) Colla (1766 - 1848), Italian botanist
   LAMB.:  Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761 - 1842), British botanist
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Musa:   mauz (arab. ) = Banana
   acuminata:   acuminate
   cavendishii:   William George Spencer Cavendish, 6. Duke of Devonshire (1790 - 1858), English noble, whose gardener Joseph PAXTON grew the first bananas
 

Origin of the Bananas is East Asia, where most Bananas are still grown for Asian own needs today. Bananas exported to Europe are usually grown in Central and South America. Only in Spain the variety with smaller fruit from the Canary Islands shown on this page is common, the same applies to the bananas from the Azores for Portugal. Cultivated Bananas are breedings whose fruits no longer contain seeds. Therefore they are propagated by dividing the parent plants.

 

Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana, Teneriffa San Marco 19.2.1989
Fig. 1:  Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana (cultiv.)
Teneriffa, San Marco 19.2.1989
Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana, Teneriffa Puerto de la Cruz 9.2.1989
Fig. 2:  Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana (cultiv.)
Teneriffa, Puerto de la Cruz 9.2.1989
Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana, Teneriffa Puerto de la Cruz 16.2.1989
Fig. 3:  Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana (cultiv.)
Teneriffa, Puerto de la Cruz 16.2.1989
Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana, Teneriffa Puerto de la Cruz 16.2.1989
Fig. 4:  Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana (cultiv.)
Teneriffa, Puerto de la Cruz 16.2.1989
Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana, Teneriffa Puerto de la Cruz 16.2.1989
Fig. 5:  Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana (cultiv.)
Teneriffa, Puerto de la Cruz 16.2.1989
Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana, Teneriffa El Conde 12.2.1989
Fig. 6:  Musa acuminata / Dessert Banana (cultiv.)
Teneriffa, El Conde 12.2.1989

 


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