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During this time he collected banana samples in East Africa in 1948 and further samples in Asia and Malaysia in 1954/5. [5] [3] From 1959 to 1965 he was the head of the Potato Genetics Department of the John Innes Institute. [3] [4] In 1965 he became Director of the Scottish Plant Breeding Station which was then in Pentlandfield, a suburb of ...
Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with about 91 known species, [3] placed in the order Zingiberales. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be woody trees.
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.
The term nam wa has crossed over into the Khmer language where Thai banana is known in Cambodia as chek nam va (ចេកណាំវ៉ា), [11] but is known in the Khmer-speaking Thai province of Surin as chek sâ (ចេកស) or white banana. [12] This banana variety has multiple romanizations including 'Namwah Tall' (with a superfluous 'h').
Tropical horticulture includes plants such as perennial woody plants (arboriculture), ornamentals (floriculture), vegetables (olericulture), and fruits including grapes (viticulture). The origin of many of these crops is not in the tropics but in temperate zones. Their adoption to tropical climatic conditions is an objective of breeding. Many ...
Contrary to common belief, growing banana trees is not that difficult and allow people to enjoy their own bananas. [2] Also these plants can be used as windbreaks.They need fertile soils, large mulch and organic matter, large amounts of nitrogen and potassium, warm temperature, high humidity, large amounts of water, and shelter from other banana plants.
South Korea's cultivated area of subtropical crops has jumped from about 295 hectares (730 acres) in 2021 to 3,306 hectares in 2023, with 67 banana farms in the south, according to the Rural ...
The Madagascar banana tree is a herbaceous tree. [4] It loses all of its leaves in the dry season with only a pseudostem of leaf-sheaths remaining. [5]A typical Madagascar banana tree is 5 to 6 meters high, with a trunk swollen at the base into a thick tuber 2.5 m in circumference.