Ornamental bananas and other potential landscape banana varieties: classification and description
2003
Siti Hawa Jamaluddin, (MARDI, GPO Box 12301, 50774 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Horticulture Research Centre)
Malaysia is one of the centres of origin of bananas and has a rich diversity with over 200 banana accessions. The banana is a very versatile crop whereby it has many uses. Beside eaten fresh, many varieties, are cooked into many dishes and processed into various products that range from detergents to cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. One other interesting use for banana is for landscaping. The landscape industry is a fast emerging and money-spinning industry very much in tandem with the fast increasing affluent society. The banana diversity therefore can be put to good use whereby several ornamental species (M. coccinea, M. velutina, M. ornata, M. violascens) which belong to the section Callimusa and Rhodochlamys can and have been used as landscape plants. There is also potential to some wild and lesser known cultivated varieties.
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