A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Musa acuminata
A local Indonesian variety of banana known as "pisang Ambon". Bananas have a long and complicated history but are native to South Asia and Southeast Asia including New Guinea. There are two species and and a hybrid between the two giving rise to manifold cultivars. Pisang Ambon is a cultivar of one of the species, Musa acuminata.
This spotting in a large, town garden, in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
I planted this tree from an offshoot of another banana tree, selected for its type of bananas. The fruit is just beginning to fill out.
Spotted on Sep 29, 2011
Submitted on Oct 12, 2011
1 Comment
Nice explanation - I got angry wasps attack when I was cutting one back in my Borneo garden. The little bananas are delicious - sometimes a little smokey from the locals burning the undergrowth.