Banana
Musa acuminata · Family: Musaceae
- Light
- sun
- Watering
- very high
- Hardy to
- 5 °C
- Soil
- fertile
Where it grows on Tenerife
With watering: North coast · South coast
Indicative conditions, reviewed by Marianna.
Photos
Origin and history
Native to South-East Asia. The banana reached the Canaries in the 15th–16th centuries and in 1516 was taken from here to the Americas.
Written for this site, pending Marianna's review.
From Wikipedia
Musa acuminata is a species of banana native to Southern Asia, its range comprising the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Many of the modern edible dessert bananas are derived from this species, although some are hybrids with Musa balbisiana. First cultivated by humans around 8000 BCE, it is one of the earlier examples of domesticated plants.
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