Famine Foods Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine

Musa cvs.

Uses

Papua New Guinea: trunks and corms eaten. These cultivars of the genus Musa are interspecific crosses between three wild species

Additional Information

Plant Classification Group:

Musaceae

Plant Locations:

Oceania
- Papua New Guinea

Plant References:

BOURKE 2015b

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