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Apr 14, 2014 5:51 AM CST
Name: Myriam Vandenberghe
Ghent, Belgium (Zone 8a)
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First the 'Flora do Brasil' lists 1 banana sp as native, they name it Musa paradisiaca.

I know it should be Musa x paradisiaca according to 'The Plantlist'.

There are many varieties in shape and taste growing and sold in Brazil.
The land of my friends where I stayed, had two types growing which they call:
'Banana da Prata' and 'Banana da Terra' the last one being a cooking banana with visible seeds inside and a different shape.
Then I still have a photo of the Apple Banana (different again in shape and flavour) taken on a food market in Rio.

Do I enter all those different ones under Musa x paradisiaca??
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