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Musa × paradisiaca L.
Synonym
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Musa × paradisiaca var. acicularis
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Family
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Musaceae
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Local name
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English-Banana
Malayalam-Vazha
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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Throughout the year
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Distribution
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Cultivated throughput the tropics
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Cultivated
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Uses
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Used
as fruit and vegetable
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Key botanical characters :
Stout herbs; root stock large; stem formed by the imbricate
base of petioles. Leaves simple, large, with a thick midnerve and pinnately
parallel nerves. Inflorescence terminal, spicate; bracts spathaceous, large.
Flowers bisexual. Sepals and petals connate. Lip free, transparent. Stamens
5, fertile, with a sterile staminode. Ovary inferior, 3-celled; ovules many,
axile; style filiform, with a lobulate stigma. Fruit fleshy, oblong.
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