Musa Kofi

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

Cultivar Name

Musa 'kofi'

Synonyms

Pictures

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Description

Sets 8-9 hands of fruit. Shorter variety, but very robust. Good suckered with strong fleshed bananas. The flower is cream with an orange tip. Low susceptibility to yellow sigatoka. This banana grows well in most areas away from the wind. It likes to grow in gulches on the lower frings of a forest. Kofi is not really a dessert type banana, it can be eaten 'out of hand' but it is often cooked. It is a member of the Iholena sub-group wich is a combination cooking-dessert banana that rated highest in the TREC tasting tests.

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Origin

Papua New guinea

• Date realized in trade -

Usage

Desert/cooking

Flowering

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Cultivation

• Mature Height -

7-8 feet

• Survival Zone -

9-10

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• Wind -

• Sun -

Full sun

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Known Afflictions

• Pests -

Borers, grashoppers and root nematodes

• Susceptible Diseases -

Panama disease

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Research Notes

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Members Growing This Banana

External

• Links

  (Links to other useful pages on the web that mention this banana. Example: International Banana Society)

• Sources