Musa Sapientum
The banana plant. This has been cultivated and used as food in tropical countries from very remote times, and furnishes enormous quantities of nutritious food, and serves as a staple support to a larg...
The banana plant. This has been cultivated and
used as food in tropical countries from very remote times, and
furnishes enormous quantities of nutritious food, and serves as a
staple support to a large number of the human race. The expressed
juice is in some countries made into a fermented liquor and the
young shoots eaten as a vegetable.
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