Musa paradisiaca L.

• Authority

  Popenoe, Wilson. 1924. Economic fruit-bearing plants of Ecuador. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-ix, 101-134. pl. 34-49.

• Family

  Musaceae

• Scientific Name

  Musa x paradisiaca L.

• Description

  Description - [No description provided.]

• Discussion

  The plantain is one of the principal food plants of the lowlands, and ia abundant in the markets of nearly all the highland towns, being carried to them from nearby regions of lower elevation. The historian Gonzales Suárez asserts, without saying on what grounds, that this was one of the food plants of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of Ecuador.

• Common Names

  platano