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Originally Posted by luisport
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Description:
The pseudo-stem can be 10-15 m high with a circumference at the base of the plant of 2 m.
The leaf sheath is waxy at the bottom and reddish tinted at the top.
The petioles are up to 60 cm long. The leaves are up to 5 m long and 1 m wide.
The inflorescence is enormous and hangs from a huge, smooth peduncle of 10 cm in diameter. It wears about 20 basal hands, each with 16-25 hermaphrodite flowers.
The banana bunch is big, very compact and weighs about 60 kg. The ripe bananas are about 18 cm long and 3-4 cm wide. The fruit is inedible. The seeds are smooth with an angular outline, very variable in shape, dark brown or black, 4-10 mm in diameter with a 2 mm deep hilum hole.
Produces few suckers.