Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana
COMMON NAME | Apple banana, silk banana, Manzana banana |
TYPE | Ginger/Heliconia |
FAMILY | Musaceae |
NOTES | A
triploid hybrid banana cultivar, Latundan banana plants typically reach a height of 10 to 13 feet.
The flowers are yellow, purple, or ivory in color. The fruits are
round-tipped with thin yellow skin that splits once fully ripe. They are
smaller than the Lacatan cultivar and the commercially dominant Cavendish
bananas. They have a slightly acidic, apple-like flavor. In older
classifications, the Latundan cultivar was once the plant referred to as Musa
sapientum. It has since been discovered that Musa sapientum is actually a
hybrid cultivar of the wild seeded bananas Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata
and not a species. |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION | Southeast Asia and the Philippines |
NATIVE
HABITAT | Wet
tropical climates |
WEB SOURCES |
