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Plantain
Musa × paradisiaca
Musa × paradisiaca is a species as well as a cultivar, originating as the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, cultivated and domesticated by humans very early. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are polyploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alone. Linnaeus originally used the name M. paradisiaca only for plantains or cooking bananas, but the modern usage includes hybrid cultivars used both for cooking and as dessert bananas. Linnaeus's name for dessert bananas, Musa sapientum, is thus a synonym of Musa × paradisiaca.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.122
The Secrets of Albertus Magnus on the Nature of Women and the Virtues of Herbs
Albertus, Magnus, Heiliger · 1604 · p.30
The History of the Heavens
[Pluche, Antoine] · 1764 · p.148
欽定西清硯譜·卷四~卷五 (vol 3)
于敏中 · n.d. · p.45
The Dialogue of Creatures
Anonymous · 1509 · p.42
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.34
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.73
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.115
A key to physic, and the occult sciences
Sibly, Ebenezer · 1810 · p.606
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.33
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.71
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.219
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Musa × paradisiaca in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 170883.