Characteristics
A banana plant that keeps growing from year to year with many suckers. It grows 8-10 m tall. The false trunk is 4-7 m tall. The leaves have long leaf stalks. The leaves are oblong with a heart shaped base. They are 2-3 m long by 40-70 cm wide. The flowering stalk hangs down. It is 1-1.5 m long. Lower flowers are female and higher flowers are male. The bracts are dark purple with yellow tips. They are 12-30 cm long. The fruit contain seeds.
| Life form |
perennial
|
| Growth form |
herb
|
| Growth support |
-
|
| Foliage retention |
evergreen
|
| Sexuality |
hermaphrodite
|
| Pollination |
-
|
| Spread |
-
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| Mature width (meter) |
-
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| Mature height (meter) |
8.0 - 10.0
|
| Root system |
-
|
| Rooting depth (meter) |
-
|
| Root diameter (meter) |
-
|
| Flower color |
-
|
| Blooming months |
-
|
| Fruit color |
-
|
| Fruiting months |
-
|
| Nitrogen fixer |
-
|
| Photosynthetic pathway |
-
|
Environment
A tropical plant. It grows in forest valleys with rich, moist soil. It grows up to 1,100 m above sea level.
| Light |
-
|
| Soil humidity |
-
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| Soil texture |
-
|
| Soil acidity |
-
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| Soil nutriment |
-
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| Hardiness (USDA) |
-
|
Usage
The fruit can be eaten whole including seeds. Or the seeds can be sieved out and the flesh eaten. The terminal bud is eaten. The inner part of the young rhizome is eaten. It is finely cut and cooked with pork and rice.
Cultivation
Plants can be grown from seeds or suckers.
| Mode |
seedlings
|
| Germination duration (days) |
7 - 180
|
| Germination temperacture (C°) |
21 - 26
|
| Germination luminosity |
-
|
| Germination treatment |
-
|
| Minimum temperature (C°) |
-
|
| Optimum temperature (C°) |
23 - 28
|
| Size |
-
|
| Vigor |
-
|
| Productivity |
-
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