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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.
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry [1] ... Malagasy people colonized Madagascar from South East Asia around 600 AD onwards. [40]
Ensete perrieri – endemic to Madagascar but intriguingly like the Asian E. glaucum Ensete ventricosum – enset or false banana, widely cultivated as a food plant in Ethiopia Asia Ensete glaucum – widespread in Asia from India to Papua New Guinea Ensete superbum – Western Ghats of India
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Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro or saonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional ...
Although formerly considered to be monotypic, four different forms have been distinguished. [3] [4] Five new species were described in 2021, all from Madagascar. [5]The following species are currently recognised in the genus Ravenala: [6]
Ensete perrieri, the Madagascar banana, is a species of banana exclusively found in western Madagascar. The Madagascar banana is listed as critically endangered because of deforestation and climate change. However, some botanists believe that the Madagascar banana is a potential source of resistance to Panama disease, which wiped out the Gros ...
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 .