Firgas Travel Guide

 C.GOROSTIAGA Says:  Cooking varieties, or plantains (M. paradisiaca), differ from other bananas in that the ripe fruit is starchy rather than sweet. They are extensively cultivated and used in tropical regions and are marketed in large urban areas worldwide. The United States imports more... 

 C.GOROSTIAGA Says:  Banana plants thrive naturally on deep, loose, well-drained soils in humid tropical climates, and they are grown successfully under irrigation in such semiarid regions as the southern side of Jamaica. Suckers and divisions of the pseudo-bulb are used as planting material;... 

 C.GOROSTIAGA Says:  A large flower spike, carrying numerous yellowish flowers, emerges at the top of the false trunk and bends downward to become bunches of 50 to 150 individual fruits, or fingers. The individual fruits, or bananas, are grouped in clusters, or hands, of 10 to 20. After a plant... 

 C.GOROSTIAGA Says:  Fruit of the genus Musa, of the family Musaceae, one of the most important food crops of the world. The banana is consumed extensively throughout the tropics, where it is grown, and is also valued in the temperate zone for its flavour, nutritional value, and availability...