Musa Mahoe

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Contents 1 Cultivar Name 1.1 Synonyms 2 Pictures 3 Description 3.1 False Mahoe 3.2 Origin 3.3 Usage 4 Flowering 5 Cultivation 5.1 Known Afflictions 6 Research Notes 6.1 Members Growing This Banana 7 External

Cultivar Name

Musa 'mahoe'

Synonyms

Pa-lua

Hua-lua

Mana-lua

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Description

• Genetic Group - Eumusa, AAB, Subgroup Maoli-Popoulu

Twins" also called Pa-lua (double), Mana-lua (two bunched), or hua-lua (bearing in twos) is a native banana the stem of which divides into two, forming two bunches. From the Maoli group, this variety is common in Kona, Hawaii. Pole (62, p41) reports one plant found in Hilo which "had its fruiting stem divided in an attempt to produce six seperate bunches of fruit." The fruits are small, skin yellow when ripe, flesh light salmon, said to be delicious when well ripened. The leaf is green on the upper surface, light green beneath, the petiole margin red. The trunk is green tinged with pink and splotched with brown. This variety is considered extinct in Hawai'i, with the only living sample being a diseased tissue culture in the International Transit Centre (ITC).

False Mahoe

A variety sold nowadays under similar naming conventions is in truth a Cavendish type banana. The confusion likely stems from the fact that both are capable of putting out more than a single bunch, and a general lack of available information to distinguish the two. Mai'a Mahoe is significantly taller than the Dwarf Chinese/Cavendish mutant and retains no debris on the rachis.

Origin

Hawaii

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Members Growing This Banana

External

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• Sources

ITC MGIS Accession - Mai'a Mahoe

https://www.crop-diversity.org/mgis/accession/01BEL0841170

Kepler, A.K. and Rust, F.G. 2011. The world of bananas in Hawai'i: then and now. Pali-O-Waipi'o press, Hawaii. 586p. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-world-of-bananas-in-hawaii-then-and-now/