Bananas – part II - Borneo’s wild species bananas. [Newspaper] (2014)
Abstract
Last week I wrote about the amazing cultivated banana and its long history. The cultivated bananas are a complex mix of two species that have been selected and hybridized over thousands of years. One of these species, Musa acuminata, is still found wild across South-east Asia, including Borneo, but there are several other wild species in Sabah as well, some of which are planted as attractive ornamentals.Beccari’s Banana
One of the showiest of these ornamentals is Musa beccari, or Beccari’s Banana, named after the Italian botanist and explorer, Odoardo Beccari. He has cropped up several times before in this column, for he wrote a wonderful book about his botanical explorations in Sarawak, entitled “Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo”, which was published in 1902, and his banana is only one of the many interesting species named after him.
| Item Type: | Newspaper |
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| Keywords: | Borneo, wild species Bananas, Bananas species |
| Taxonomy: | By Subject > Applied Sciences > Food Technology |
| Local Content Hub: | Subjects > Applied Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Eza Eliana Abdul Wahid |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2020 23:45 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2020 23:45 |
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