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Musa balbisiana

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Home Perennial Musa balbisiana

Forests, on forest edges, in ravines and on water sides.

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Family: Musaceae
Height: 5 m / 17 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Plantain, Plantain Banana Musa balbisiana native habitat is Forests, on forest edges, in ravines and on water sides.

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw or cooked. The fruit is not often eaten raw, being unpopular because of its seediness. The ripe fruit is boiled, baked, fried, or roasted. Juice from the ripe fruits is mixed with sugar and then fermented into a type of vinegar. Young fruits are used like green papaya in salads and pickles. The green, yellow or brown fruits can be 10 - 25cm long. They can be seeded or seedless. The underground stem can be eaten as a vegetable. The inner stem is sometimes eaten in curries. Male flower clusters - sometimes used as an ingredient in curries.

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