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Yuri Barros
03-09-2020, 02:44 PM
I had some trouble to identify the Uganda Cooking Banana.......called Matoke.....

its a FHIA......developed based on the Traditional Uganda Cooking Banana....

but I don´t know what it is.........mayabe FHIA 3....or FHIA 25..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuifJnSYKU

sddarkman619
03-09-2020, 10:09 PM
I just got some of those. ad was going to post and then I saw your post...
Apparently those are a large staple of the food industry there.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65758&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65758)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65759&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65759)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65757&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65757)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65756&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65756)

Yuri Barros
03-10-2020, 06:39 AM
nice......this is what I´m searching for......but never found it........

this is exactly what I want....High Land Uganda Cooking Banana......specially the ones with a very dark pstem.........

beam2050
03-10-2020, 08:38 AM
matoke? that the same thing as the fhia 17. puts out 300 lbs of banana 1 lb. each?

Yuri Barros
03-10-2020, 09:23 AM
matoke? that the same thing as the fhia 17. puts out 300 lbs of banana 1 lb. each?

thank you.......I was searching what kind of FHIA.............

there´s a thread here about FHIA 17 http://www.bananas.org/f2/fhia-17-a-20404.html

but according this site.....FHIA 17 is a desert banana......

and FHIA 25 is a cooking Banana FHIA-25 | The banana knowledge platform of the ProMusa network (http://www.promusa.org/FHIA-25)

Yuri Barros
03-10-2020, 09:43 AM
I am searching this dark pstem Uganda Banana....maybe its not FHIA.......maybe its an original high land strain.......


<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49914&ppuser=11331><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=50008 border=0></a>

Gabe15
03-10-2020, 11:50 AM
Matooke bananas have nothing to do with FHIA bananas. Matooke are traditional landraces, Mutika/Lujugira subgroup, AAA genome. FHIA bananas are all hybrids from a modern breeding program. Some of the bananas in that video appear to likely be FHIA-17, as it was introduced to the region awhile ago and is popular for some uses as it is high yielding, but it is not Matooke and not an East African Highland Banana.

There are about 80 or so different cultivars of Matooke, many have dark coloration,
some with very black pseudostems. The photo above does not have enough details to be able to ID which Matooke it may be.

Yuri Barros
03-10-2020, 01:05 PM
Thank You..........

beam2050
03-10-2020, 02:44 PM
Matooke bananas have nothing to do with FHIA bananas. Matooke are traditional landraces, Mutika/Lujugira subgroup, AAA genome. FHIA bananas are all hybrids from a modern breeding program. Some of the bananas in that video appear to likely be FHIA-17, as it was introduced to the region awhile ago and is popular for some uses as it is high yielding, but it is not Matooke and not an East African Highland Banana.

There are about 80 or so different cultivars of Matooke, many have dark coloration,
some with very black pseudostems. The photo above does not have enough details to be able to ID which Matooke it may be.

thanks gabe. they have 80 different varieties? wow, that's confusing.

beam2050
03-10-2020, 02:47 PM
thank you.......I was searching what kind of FHIA.............

there´s a thread here about FHIA 17 http://www.bananas.org/f2/fhia-17-a-20404.html

but according this site.....FHIA 17 is a desert banana......

and FHIA 25 is a cooking Banana FHIA-25 | The banana knowledge platform of the ProMusa network (http://www.promusa.org/FHIA-25)

some bananas are commonly ate out of hand and cooked, like the pisang raja.

Gabe15
03-10-2020, 04:34 PM
thanks gabe. they have 80 different varieties? wow, that's confusing.

Matooke is the name of the food/dish made from those bananas, but the plants themselves have specific cultivar names.

Yuri Barros
06-04-2020, 09:44 PM
I found a nice links.....

https://naturemeetsculturestories.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/matoke-mysteries2-theforest/

Early Bananas in Africa: The state of the art | Neumann | Ethnobotany Research and Applications (http://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/361/237)