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  2. Plantago major - Wikipedia

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    Plantago major, the broadleaf plantain, white man's footprint, waybread, or greater plantain, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. The plant is native to Eurasia. The young, tender leaves can be eaten raw, and the older, stringier leaves can be boiled in stews and eaten.

  3. Plantago - Wikipedia

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    Greater plantain (Plantago major) Scientific classification; Kingdom: ... commonly called plantains or fleaworts. The common name plantain is shared with the ...

  4. Musa balbisiana - Wikipedia

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    Musa balbisiana, also known simply as plantain, is a wild-type species of banana. It is one of the ancestors of modern cultivated bananas, along with Musa acuminata . Description

  5. Plantago lanceolata - Wikipedia

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    Plantago lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is known by the common names ribwort plantain, [1] narrowleaf plantain, [2] English plantain, [3] ribleaf, [citation needed] lamb's tongue, and buckhorn. [4] It is a common weed on cultivated or disturbed land.

  6. Musa (genus) - Wikipedia

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    The late Latin term musa was later chosen by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, as the name for the genus. [13] From the time of Linnaeus until the 1940s, different types of edible bananas and plantains were given Linnaean binomial names, such as Musa cavendishii, as if they were species.

  7. Cooking banana - Wikipedia

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    Plantains are used in the Ivory Coast dish aloco as the main ingredient. Fried plantains are covered in an onion-tomato sauce, often with a grilled fish between the plantains and sauce. [21] Boli or bole is the term used for roasted plantain in Nigeria. The plantain is usually grilled and served with roasted fish, ground peanuts and a hot palm ...

  8. List of plants by common name - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names, in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.

  9. Plantago patagonica - Wikipedia

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    Plantago patagonica is a species of plantain known by the common name woolly plantain. It is native to much of North America, including the southern half of Canada, the western and central United States, and northern Mexico, and parts of southern South America. It grows in many types of habitat, including grassland, desert and woodlands. It is ...