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Musa basjoo, known variously as Japanese banana, [2] Japanese fibre banana [3] or hardy banana, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the banana family Musaceae.
Tokyo Banana (東京ばな奈, also written 東京バナナ or 東京ばなな with the same pronunciation) is a Japanese banana-shaped sponge cake with cream filling. It is the official souvenir sweet of Tokyo and is manufactured and sold by Grapestone Co. [ ja ] .
Kijōka-bashōfu (喜如嘉の芭蕉布) is the Japanese craft of making cloth from the bashō or Japanese fibre banana as practiced in Kijōka in Ogimi, Okinawa. Like linen , hemp , ramie and other long vegetable fibres, it does not stick to the skin in hot weather; as such it is suitable for the climate of Okinawa . [ 1 ]
Here’s how to make ‘em: Slice a banana into nine rounds of even thickness. Carefully slide three slices on each wooden skewer, then slide on raspberry hats.
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman, became the world’s oldest living person at age 116, following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Guinness World Records. Itooka lives in a ...
Everyone should have at least one amazing banana bread recipe, and this is ours. Made with chocolate chips, walnuts and a sprinkle of lime zest, it's pretty hard to beat. Ingredients. 3 ripe ...
The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. Almost all modern cultivated varieties ( cultivars ) of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana .
The Blue Java banana is a triploid [1] hybrid of the seeded banana Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata. [4] Its accepted name is Musa acuminata × balbisiana (ABB Group) 'Blue Java'. Synonyms include: Musa acuminata × balbisiana (ABB Group) 'Ice Cream' In Hawaii it is known as the 'Ice Cream banana' and in Fiji as the 'Hawaiian