Plantain banana (Musa paradisiaca L.): fruiting branch with sections of flowers and fruit. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

  • Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.
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[1885]
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16359i
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Plantain banana (Musa paradisiaca L.): fruiting branch with sections of flowers and fruit. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Plantain banana is also known as Adam's or horse banana

Plantain banana is the major cooking banana used in the tropics

Publication/Creation

Bruxelles [Brussels] : Librairie C. Muquardt, éditeur, [1885]

Physical description

1 print : chromolithograph, printed in 8 colours

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Musa paradisiaca L. Peint d'apres nature par Mme Berthe Hoola van Nooten, à Batavia. Chromolith: par P. Depannemaeker, à Ledeberg-lez-Gand, (Belgique)

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Wellcome Collection 16359i

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