[Sca-cooks] plantain, bananas, herbals

[Terry Decker]

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> However, my concern is rather how to distinguish the search items on the 
> banana/ musa/ plantain side.
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> I have eaten bananas but I guess I have never ever seen a plantain fruit 
> in my life ...
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> What is the modern scientific name of the plant we are looking after
> and what might have been the names used in the early English, Italian,
> Latin, German, Dutch ... what else? ... herbals?
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> E.
 Musa paradisiaca is the plantain or cooking banana.  Musa acuminata is the 
eating banana AKA banana.  In earlier taxonomies, the banana may appear as 
Musa sapientium.

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