Musa Eka

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Cultivar Name

Musa 'eka'

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Description

A banana with curved and angular fruit, thick skin, reddish after flowering, becoming dark green and yellow when ripe(like the manaiula) and is edible only when cooked. The petiole and midrib are pale red, the trunk light green, tinged with red. The fruit can not be distinguished from the manaiula when sold.

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Origin

Hawai

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Usage

cooking banana

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