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  2. Should You Use Banana Peels In The Garden? Experts Weigh In - AOL

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    Banana peels contain potassium and phosphorus, which are important nutrients to grow thriving plants. Placing banana peels directly in the soil may seem like a good idea, after all, it's a way to ...

  3. Banana Peel Fertilizer: Does it Really Work? Here’s ... - AOL

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    Is banana peel water good for plants? Another popular approach you may have heard about is to soak banana peels to make a sort of compost tea or banana water to be used as fertilizer.

  4. Musa acuminata - Wikipedia

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    Most banana cultivars which exhibit purely or mostly Musa acuminata genomes are dessert bananas, while hybrids of M. acuminata and M. balbisiana are mostly cooking bananas or plantains. [23] Musa acuminata is one of the earliest plants to be domesticated by humans for agriculture, 7,000 years ago in New Guinea and Wallacea. [24]

  5. Fragrance extraction - Wikipedia

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    This method is most commonly used for fresh plant materials such as flowers, leaves, and stems. Popular hydrosols are rose water, lavender water, and orange blossom water. Many plant hydrosols have unpleasant smells and are therefore not sold. Most oils are distilled in a single process.

  6. Banana paper - Wikipedia

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    Banana paper is a type of paper created from banana plant bark or banana peel fibers. Banana paper has a lower density, higher stiffness, higher disposability, higher renewability, and higher tensile strength compared to traditional paper. [1] These qualities are due to the cellular composition of banana fiber, which consists of cellulose ...

  7. Banana Peel Fertilizer: Does it Really Work? Here’s ... - AOL

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    Everybody loves money-saving DIY ideas, especially if it repurposes something that’s ordinarily trash. So, the idea to use banana peels as fertilizer seems, well, rather appealing (you knew we ...

  8. To eat a banana peel or not to eat a banana peel: That ... - AOL

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    If eating the banana peel isn't your thing, there are plenty of other ways to recycle the banana's usable outer layer. The peels can be used to fertilize plants, tenderize meat, relieve rashes and ...

  9. Musa (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Banana plants are among the largest extant herbaceous plants, some reaching up to 9 m (30 ft) in height or 18 m (59 ft) in the case of Musa ingens.The large herb is composed of a modified underground stem (), a false trunk or pseudostem formed by the basal parts of tightly rolled leaves, a network of roots, and a large flower spike.