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HAWAII - POLYNESIAN
INTRODUCTION
Musa acuminata
Kona, Hawaii
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APPLE BANANA MAI'A
| Bananas have been in cultivation for several thousand years.
Native to northern Australia and cultivated in Hawaii. Small
fruits are yellow and lack seeds. Polynesian colonists brought at
least two species represented by numerous cultivars that grow wild in
wet forests. Musa x paradisiaca has waxy green leaves and
fruiting stalk is pendant, while Musa troglodytarum has bright
green leaves and fruiting stalk that grows upright. Fruits are
reddish-orange with large seeds.
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