Abelmoschus esculentus (L - the University of Maine at Fort Kent

Kermath, Bennett and Pulsipher - Food Plants in the Americs
USES/NOTES: Leaves are used in curries and tonics, flowers are used
in teas, and fruits reportedly are edible. Also grown as an
ornamental for its showy, fragrant spring flowers.
NATURAL RANGE: Southeast Asia, widely naturalized in warm regions
REFERENCES: Brako and Zarucchi 1993, Duke and Vásquez 1994, Facciola
1990, FLEPPC 2003, Long and Lakela 1971, Mabberley 1987, Tanaka
1976, Voeks 1997
Musa acuminata Colla, including M. nana Lour. [syn. M. cavendishii
Lamb. ex Paxton, M. chinensis Lamb. ex Paxton]
FAMILY: Musaceae (banana)
ENGLISH: cavendish banana, Chinese banana, dwarf banana
PORTUGUESE: banana, banana-açucarina, banana-baiê, banana-cambota,
banana-catarina, banana-casca-verde, banana-chorona, banana-da-
China, banana-de-italiano, banana-d’água, banana-inglesa, bananamangalô,
banana-nanica, banana-peroá, banana-petiça, banana-tatu
SPANISH: banana china, banano enano, cachaco, calicero, cambur
enano, cambur pigmeo, carapé, chino, colicero, congo,
cuatrofilos, curro, dame-más (a tiny variety from the Dominican
Rupublic), guineo, guineo enano, majoncho, mocho, orito, pacová
carapé, pigmeo, plátano tabasco, popocho, verdín
USES/NOTES: Six to twelve cm long sweet fruit is eaten out of hand
or prepared variously for desserts. The dáme-más ("give me more"
in Spanish) variety is so named because it is so good and so
small that one is left always wanting more.
NATURAL RANGE: Malaya to New Guinea
REFERENCES: Cavalcante 1991, Chapman 2008, IBGE 1980, Jenkins 2000,
Kermath (notes), Koeppel 2007, Leung 1961, Morton 1987a, OAS
1973, Sauer 1993, Simmonds 1966, Smith et al. 1992, Usher 1974
Musa x paradisiaca L. (pro sp.) [hybrid of Musa acuminata Colla x
M. balbisiana Colla]
FAMILY: Musaceae (banana)
ENGLISH: Adam’s banana, Adam’s fig, horse banana, plantain, totoyam
plantain
PORTUGUESE: banana, banana-Caiena, banana-caturra-galega, bananachorona,
banana-comprida, banana-da-terra, banana-pacobeira,
banana-pacobuçu, banana-pacova, banana-samburá, banana-São-Tomé,
chifre-de-boi, pacoveira-grande
SPANISH: banano indio, banano macho, bárbaro, bellaco, burro,
butuco, chato, chumbe (dried leaf only), chumbo, coto, cuadrado,
cuerno de toro, curraré, cuyaco, hartón, isleño, majoncho,
mataburros, pacobusú, plátano, plátano bárbaro, plátano blanco,
plátano burro, plátano de cocinar, plátano de la isla, plátano
dominico, plátano hembra, plátano guineo, plátano macho, plátano
maqueño, plátano rulo, plátano tabasco, plátano viando, preto,
resplandor, rulo, salvaje, sapucha, topocho, zapalote
USES/NOTES: Long, narrow fruit, firmer and less sweet than the
smaller banana, typically is eaten boiled or fried as either a
fruit or a vegetable, though sweet cultivars, sometimes eaten out
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