LightSpecies-level: full sun for best production; tolerates some shade.
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Banana Curry (Cooking)
Aratikaya
Musa (ABB) Monthan
Vegetable cooking banana for curries and chips — firm green fruit, high-yield backyard crop.
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Plant guide
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Growing characteristics and practical care notes.
WaterSpecies-level, Florida guidance: about 2.5–3.8 cm weekly; avoid flooding and persistently wet soil.
Growth habitSpecies-level: herbaceous clump of upright pseudostems.
- Growth habit
- Species-level: herbaceous clump of upright pseudostems.
- Growth rate
- Species-level: fast-growing.
- Foliage
- Species-level: large leaf blades; leaf sheaths form pseudostems.
- Flowers / fruit
- If this listing refers to Monthan, TNAU describes a cooking banana with firm, cream-coloured pulp; identity was not independently verified.
- Light
- Species-level: full sun for best production; tolerates some shade.
- Watering
- Species-level, Florida guidance: about 2.5–3.8 cm weekly; avoid flooding and persistently wet soil.
- Soil
- Species-level: deep, well-drained soil.