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geosulcata
01-26-2014, 07:15 PM
I am looking for a maqueno plant. We had one in our backyard in Ecuador. Now we are in SW FL and I miss this amazing fruit. It made the best chifles and banana muffins.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=55625&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=55625&ppuser=17965)

ez
01-26-2014, 08:12 PM
I am looking for a maqueno plant. We had one in our backyard in Ecuador. Now we are in SW FL and I miss this amazing fruit. It made the best chifles and banana muffins.



http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/1tvg/6nub8kn87_zpse1607b2e.jpg
http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac317/1tvg/hhej77_zps04e5dd11.jpg



It's called French plantain in English someone here probably grows this plant and will be able to help you.

Good luck

geosulcata
01-26-2014, 08:37 PM
Thanks,

What we had in Ecuador, did not have the pointed tips, but were instead very rounded on the ends. When I did a search (and looked at the pictures) these did not look like the maquenos we grew or purchased in the markets.


Isn't musa acuminata x balbisiana colla an ABB?

ez
01-26-2014, 10:55 PM
Thanks,

What we had in Ecuador, did not have the pointed tips, but were instead very rounded on the ends. When I did a search (and looked at the pictures) these did not look like the maquenos we grew or purchased in the markets.


Isn't musa acuminata x balbisiana colla an ABB?

Dominico Platano ?

Dominico–Hartón plantain (Musa AAB Simmonds)

Flickr Search: dominico platano (http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dominico+platano)

PR-Giants
06-04-2014, 08:53 PM
‘Maqueño’ is a member of the Maia Maoli-Popoulu subgroup, which is most prevalent in the Pacific. ‘Maqueño’ has been used as a female parent in the FHIA breeding program, but is unfortunately very susceptible to race 1. Recently, Panama disease began to move into the Pacific, a region that had been generally free of the disease. As Panama disease spreads in the Pacific it threatens ‘Maqueño’ and other cultivars in this important subgroup.