Basic introduction
Banana (scientific name: Musa nanaLour.) belongs to the genus Musa, also refers to its fruit. Widely cultivated and eaten in tropical areas. Bananas are delicious, nutritious and can be harvested all year round, and are also highly valued in temperate regions. The plant is a large herb, which emanates from the rhizome and forms a false stem with a height of 3 ~ 6 meters (10 ~ 20 feet) from the lower part of the leaf sheath. The leaves are oblong to oval, some of which are 3 ~ 3.5 meters long (10 ~1.5 feet) and 65 cm (26 inches) wide,10 ~ 20 clustered stems. Spikes droop [1], and are drawn from the top of the false stem, with many flowers and light yellow; The inflorescence is pendulous, resulting in10 ~ 20 strings, about 50 ~150. Plants die after fruiting, and the sucking roots from rhizomes continue to reproduce, and each plant can live for many years. Native to Southeast Asia: it is cultivated in Taiwan Province, Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi.
growing environment
Bananas like hot and humid climate, and thrive in deep soil, loose soil and well-drained land. Irrigation cultivation has also been successful in semi-arid areas like southern Jamaica. Wild bananas are cultivated by seeds, and artificial bananas can be cultivated by root suction and pseudobulb ramets; The first harvest takes10 ~15 months, and then it is almost continuous.
Plant culture
Fruit of wisdom
Bananas were cultivated in China in the Han Dynasty, which was called "Ganjiao" at that time. It is said that when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty started to help Li Palace, bananas were among the rare flowers and trees in the world. Jin Ji-han described bananas as saying: "The epithelium left is yellow and white, tastes like grapes, sweet and crisp, and also treats muscles." "Yaya" written by Lu Dian in the Song Dynasty says: "A banana does not shed its leaves, but a leaf is a banana, so it is called a banana."
In the third century AD, Alexander discovered bananas during his expedition to India, and then they spread to all parts of the world. According to Egyptian archaeologists found in unearthed cultural relics, as far back as 4,000 years ago, there were patterns of bananas painted on Egyptian pottery, and the history of banana cultivation in Africa was earlier than that in China. It is said that the Greeks began to eat bananas more than four thousand years ago. In ancient India and Persia, people believed that golden banana fruit was "a good health care fruit given by God". Legend has it that Sakyamuni, the ancestor of Buddhism, gained wisdom by eating bananas, so he is known as "the fruit of wisdom".