Musa paradisiaca royalii

Musa paradisiaca royalii

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References Balick & Cox 1996 : 85-86
Comments This is an invalid name used by some seed suppliers in 2004 for a supposedly edible seeded banana. 

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Seeded bananas are not poisonous but they are generally regarded as inedible, in a ripe fruit the stone-hard seeds would need to be removed before the flesh could be consumed.  No-one would bother with this except in extreme circumstances.  Balick & Cox report that in Samoa a wild seedy banana is known as 'animal excrement' ('fa'i taemanu') and eaten only as a famine food.


 


last revision 22 January 2004