Musa No'u

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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 no'u

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Description

Big Mouthful" or "a person as broad as he is long" refers to the short, thick, round fruit the skin of which is green when young and yellow when ripe; the flesh is cream colored and may be eaten raw or cooked. The leaf blade is broad, the midrib pink underneath, petiole green with yellowish-pinkish wash and frosted margins red and in-turned. The trunk is green with pink wash on margins of sheaths and brownish-blackish splotches. It is cultivated, rarely growing wild, on Hawaii.

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Hawaii

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Members Growing This Banana

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