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Old 07-01-2012, 05:00 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Default Re: Gros Michel?

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Originally Posted by Yug View Post
I believe that 'leaf stalk' is not the same as 'petiole'.
If you were talking to a banana scientist in banana scientist jargon, you'd be right, but Kepler and Rust intentionally avoided terms that sound like scientific jargon. For example, they use "trunk" instead of pseudostem. In their book "leaf stalk" = petiole.
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