Musa Kahiki

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Contents 1 Cultivar Name 1.1 Synonyms 2 Pictures 3 Description 3.1 Origin 3.2 Usage 4 Flowering 5 Cultivation 5.1 Known Afflictions 6 Research Notes 6.1 Members Growing This Banana 7 External

Cultivar Name

Musa 'kahiki'

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Description

"Foreign" - or perhaps "Tahiti" - is rarely cultivated now but grows wild in abundance on Maui. It has been seen on Maui at Hana, Kipahulu, and Kahakuloa. Kamakau, who was an Oahuan, mentiones its name, but Mrs. Pukui never heard of it on Hawaii. The fruit is long, skin ripens yellow, meat white and edible cooked but not raw. It grows tall. Kahiki hae was described on Maui as similar, but short. Kahiki mauki was observed on Maui. Fruit looks like Kahiki, midrib of leaf green and rim red, petiole green with very slight pink edges, edge of channel red, trunk tall and green.

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Hawaii

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