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Musaceae images
or straight to the plants
Introduction
It
would be an absurdly over-ambitious goal to obtain diagnostically useful photographs of
all extant species of the Musaceae. Still, there's no harm in trying. If
anyone can provide me with photographs of plants that can approach and ideally meet this
exacting criteria then I should be very grateful to receive them in any form. All
contributions will be gratefully acknowledged.
What
I would ideally like is:
- View
of whole plant with some sort of scale object included.
- View
of upper leaf surface showing venation.
- View
of lower leaf surface showing venation.
- View
of pseudostem.
- View
of inflorescence.
- View
of flowers in situ.
- View
of fruit in situ.
External images.
Some useful external sources of Musaceae images are as follows:
The Stokes Tropicals website has some good (but
rather small) images of inflorescences of a wide range of Musa species.
The Shadow Wood Palmetum and Tropical Gardens website has
some good images of inflorescences at http://www.raingardens.com/gallery/tropical%20frame%202.html
but for viewing to be an agreeable experience you will need to turn your speakers off.
Miscellaneous
Ensete images
Musa images
Musella images
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