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Origin: Edible bananas originated in the Indo-Malaysian region reaching to northern Australia. ... Adaptation Bananas and plantains are today grown in every humid tropical region and constitutes the 4th largest fruit crop of the world. The plant needs 10 - 15 months of frost-free conditions to produce a flower stalk.
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Where Do Bananas Come From?. The banana is a berry that comes from what most people refer to as a banana tree, but is in fact a herbaceous plant or an herb. Banana trees grow best in warm climates, however they can be grown... ... Bananas serve many purposes, as they are a very versatile fruit. Banana sap is used for...
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Tropical Fruits question: Where do Bananas originate? Malaysia.
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Bananas are one of the most popular fruits in America. ... Bananas are the number1 selling item in the produce department. ... Bananas are estimated to have originate over 1 million years ago...
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In 650 AD, Islamic conquerors brought the banana back to Palestine. The Arabic merchants finally spread the bananas all over Africa. ... There are about 400 varieties of bananas. The rhizome is planted and gives a first shoot 3 or 4 weeks later. After 9 to 10 months the inflorescence from the foliated circlet has a diameter...
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In Central America, where most of the dollar bananas originate, production is fairly export oriented. Independent producers exist, but a considerable part of production is produced on plantations owned or controlled by one of the large multinational banana companies, the best known of which are United Fruit, Dole a...
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Deep core testing discovered opal phytoliths from bananas, dated to 5,000 years ago. Bananas originate from Southeast Asia and were thought to have been brought to Africa via Madagascar no more than 2,500 years ago; this ...
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Sharing cooking and eating experiences. ... how many asian women have blogs about food? i don't know, but this is another one ... the title of this post doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, nor does one's mind immediately latch on to the meaning. it wants to rearrange: fat duck fried chicken? fried duck chicken fat?
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