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Plantains from PR?
Could anyone tell me exactly, or close to it, the variety of plantain (platano) it is that you purchase at the grocery store and is grown in Puerto Rico for cooking?
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Re: Plantains from PR?
I wonder if the kind you get in FL are the same as those shipped to supermarkets in CA ?
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Re: Plantains from PR?
Good point, might not be!
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Re: Plantains from PR?
Could be rhino horn. They are as big as them.
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Re: Plantains from PR?
Musa African Rhino Horn - Bananas Wiki
Looks like that one could get as big as the ones in the store, but there isn't any better pics on the wiki of ripe fruit (or the tree either). |
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Re: Plantains from PR?
Usually they are just called 'French Plantain', though there are many different forms and varieties. I doubt they are growing any horn plantains for commercial export.
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Re: Plantains from PR?
Hmmm, I couldn't find one in the Wiki or elsewhere specifically called a "French Plantain," but the Dw. French plantain isn't large enough to be them. Do you know if the dwarf variety are similar in cooking? I'm trying to find one that is exact, similar, or BETTER!!!!! than the ones they sell here in the grocery stores in FL as I do a LOT of Puerto Rican cooking, and platanos are apart of 80% of meals (only beaten by rice, which is in ALL MEALS!)!!! I just moved to a more rural "redneck" city (Brevard County) from Orlando. Here they don't sell GOOD QUALITY platanos as they do in Orlando where the spanish population is MUCH higher.
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Re: Plantains from PR?
You can find african rhino horn and french rhino horn on this site:
Bananen Shop It seems they aren"t the same... |
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Re: Plantains from PR?
Here's a link that might be helpful also. [url="http://www.worldwideplants.com/bananas.htm"]
You'll find a reference for Puerto Rican DWARF PLANTAIN under GIANT PLANTAIN. Might be what your looking for.
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Re: Plantains from PR?
ask PRGIANTS lives in PR he might help you with that question
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The person that started this thread is "banned" or no longer with us for one reason or another.
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Re: Plantains from PR?
I know the initiator of this post is no longer here but for general information here is some information on all the commercial variety grown in P.R., By the way in P.R almost all the production is consume locally with very litter export.
Varieties: All commercial banana varieties in Puerto Rico are the type that Horn characterized by that the dried pampana according cluster develops. The Maricongo produces 90 percent of production and the Dwarf Common and produces 10 remaining Harton. Maricongo · It can grow 10-17 feet. · Produce an average of 46 fruits per cluster. (found clusters 30 fruits and 60 in a plantation). · The shape of the cluster is less conical the Common Dwarf Common Dwarf · Grows 8-12 feet. · Produces clusters with an average of 35 fruits. · The fruits of the first hand are more large fruits of the last hand. (conical clusters) Harton · Produces clusters of less than 30 fruits. · Fruit large (l pound approximately) |
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