The difference between banana and plantain

One, appearance

Banana shape curved like a crescent moon, the peel has 5 to 6 prongs; plantain's two ends of the thin, slightly thicker in the middle, one side of the slightly flat side of the slightly curved, a "round lack of shape", the peel has only 3 prongs; banana sweet and soft, plantain taste sweet but sour aftertaste.

1, banana

2, plantain

2, growing environment

Banana like hot and humid climate, in the soil deep, loose soil, well-drained ground growth; banana requirements for high temperatures and humidity, the growth of the temperature of 20 ~ 35 ℃, the most suitable for the 24 ~ 32 ℃, the lowest should not be lower than 15.5 ℃. Banana afraid of low temperature, avoid frost and snow, cold hardiness than plantain, pink plantain weak.

Banana is a perennial herbaceous plant, large and wide leaves, love warmth and cold tolerance is weak, the ability of stem division is strong, half-shade tolerance, adaptability is strong, fast growth. Plantain grows better in deep, loose, fertile and well-drained soil. Not cold hardy, winter must maintain a temperature of 4 ℃ or more, but can also tolerate a short period of 0 ℃ low temperature.

Tolerant of semi-shade, too much shade is poor plant growth, difficult to bloom.

Expanded Information:

Banana Varieties Classification

1. p>Qiwei belongs to the high dry type fragrant teeth banana, mainly distributed in the city of Gaozhou, Guangdong Province, for the city of Gaozhou's excellent varieties.

Plant false stem height 300-360 cm, stem circumference 65-80 cm, stem up and down more uniform, skin color light green; leaf blade more upright upward elongation, leaf blade narrow and long, petiole more slender, leaf sheaths from sparse, leaf blade dense bundles, especially before and after buds is very obvious, so the name of the Qiwei; is made of the fruit of the spike is more grown up, in general the number of combs and the number of fruits and the number of spikes similar to the high-footed Dun landmines.

The average number of combs is 8 to 10 combs, the fruit finger length of 18 to 22 cm, the single fruit weight of 130 to 140 grams, soluble solids 19% to 20%, the quality of the upper; under normal circumstances, the yield of a single plant can reach 25 to 30 kilograms, up to 50 kilograms.

The variety of high yield, long fruit fingers, is one of the varieties for export and suitable for northern transportation, but poor wind resistance, cold and disease resistance, requiring high water and fertilizer conditions.

The variety has two strains of high-footed Qiwei and short-footed Qiwei.

2, fairy banana

Fairy banana belongs to the high dry-type fragrant teeth banana, is selected from the mutation of the northern banana of Taiwan Province, its comprehensive traits are very similar to the northern banana, for the main planting varieties in Taiwan Province.

The plant is tall and thin, with a pseudostem height of 270-320 centimeters, and slightly longer and wider leaf blades than the northern plantain, with a lighter green color; the fruit has a high sugar content, but the quality is slightly worse than that of the northern plantain because of the thicker skin.

The fruit is more resistant to storage and transportation; plant yield is better than the northern banana; resistance to bunch of top disease is strong, suitable for the more barren mountain rough cultivation, but the reproductive period than the northern banana is longer than the 15-30 days, wind resistance is also poorer.

In addition, the oil banana, Yunnan high foot banana, Guangxi high type banana, Poyo (also known as Taiwan green skin), Brazilian banana, etc. are high dry type fragrant teeth banana.

3, Williams

Medium dry banana, introduced from Australia.

The plant is assumed to be 250-280 centimeters high and 47-58 centimeters in circumference; the leaf blade is 175-193 centimeters long, and the leaf blade grows slightly upright; the fruit spike is 65-80 centimeters long, and the comb shape is better, with the fruiting fingers tightly arranged, the fruiting fingers are straight, and the number of combs is more than 8-10 combs.

The number of fruits is slightly less; the fruit fingers are longer.

Fruit fingers are 19 to 23 centimeters, medium quality.

This variety has good commercial traits in fruit shape, but has poor wind resistance and is also more susceptible to leaf spot disease.

Trait performance varies in China's production areas, reflecting different.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Banana

Baidu Encyclopedia - Banana