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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
A platter of fried plantains. This is a list of banana dishes and foods in which banana or plantain is used as a primary ingredient. A banana is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. [1] In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains.
The pulp of green plantain is typically hard, with the peel often so stiff that it must be cut with a knife to be removed. [10] Mature, yellow plantains can be peeled like typical dessert bananas; the pulp is softer than in immature, green fruit and some of the starch has been converted to sugar.
You make a beeline to the produce section, only to find the thickest, biggest bananas you’ve ever seen. Before you add them to your cart, let us fill you in: They’re plantains. For the ...
Before you start tossing banana peels on your houseplants or burying them in your garden beds, listen up: “It may make you feel like you’re doing some good, but there’s no great reason to ...
It affects all main cultivars of bananas and plantains (including the Cavendish cultivars [96]), impeding photosynthesis by blackening parts of the leaves, eventually killing the entire leaf. Starved for energy, fruit production falls by 50% or more, and the bananas that do grow ripen prematurely, making them unsuitable for export. The fungus ...
The genus includes 83 species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains, and fiber , used to make paper and cloth. [2] [3] Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbaceous plants.
Each fruit can have 15 to 62 seeds. [10] Each fruit bunch can have an average of 161.76 ± 60.62 fingers with each finger around 2.4 by 9 cm (1 by 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in size. [11] The seeds of wild M. acuminata are around 5 to 6 mm (3 ⁄ 16 to 1 ⁄ 4 in) in diameter. [8] They are subglobose or angular in shape and very hard.