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BANANA CULTIVAR NAMES and SYNONYMS in HAWAI'i (Excluding Traditional Mai'a) BANANA CULTIVAR NAMES AND SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I (excluding traditional mai'a) MAIN 1 CULTIVAR NAME PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I & INTERNATIONALLY GENOME IN HAWAI'I SEEDLESS BANANAS A general name in Hawai'i for two types of closely related bananas: 1. "Apple, tall" or Brazilian, now called Hawaiian Apple and 2. the "Apple banana" shorter Dwarf Brazilian or Santa Catarina. Neither is related to the AAB "true" Apple banana, popular in Latin America and Asia, see Apple (true) or Manzano. "Apple", dwarf see Dwarf Brazilian/ Santa Catarina2 AAB Brazilian (tall) Hawaiian Apple Pisang Kelat Jambi "Apple", tall Brazil banana Nuhōlani (obsolete, Hawai'i) "Tall apple" AAB (obsolete, Hawai'i) Pome Apple (true) see Manzano AAB Ambon Kluai Hom Thong / Dok Mai Pisang Embun AAA Bluefields Chuoi Tieu Cao #2 Gros Michel Pisang Ambon Fa'i Palagi Guineo Gigante Siaine Fisi Cavendish Dwarf banana Mai'a Pake 1,3 AAA Chinese China (obs. Hawai'i) Dwarf Chinese Pisang Badak Chuoi Tieu Lun Enano Pisang Serendah Dwarf Cavendish Kluai Hom Khieo Khom Sulay Baguio C:\Documents and Settings\Scot Nelson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\6BU7SRE1\Haw'n Cv Synonym Table Aug 31 2007[1].doc AK Page 1 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:12 PM MAIN 1 CULTIVAR NAME PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I & INTERNATIONALLY GENOME IN HAWAI'I Chinese Double- Chinese Dwarf Double Double Chinese Hawaiian Māhoe ( AAA bunch Chinese double banana Chinese Māhoe/Mahoi (error) error) Double Cavendish Double-bunched Mahoi (error) Māhoe (error) Chuoi Com Lua Kluai Nak Red or Rojo Colorado Morado (de Cuba) Red Dacca AAA Cuban Red Hawaiian Red Pink banana Red Macaboo Jamaican Red Pisang Rajah Udang Merah "Tall Red" Kaua'i Red Tongan Red Dippig Pisang Kepok Pisang Nipah Saba (#1 in Hawai'i) ABB/BBB Dwarf Bluefields Cocos Dwarf Gros Michel Highgate AAA Dwarf Brazilian Santa Catarina (Prata) "Dwarf apple" Prata Aña AAB Dwarf Namwa(h) Dwarf Ducasse Kluai Namwa Khom Klue Namwa Khom ABB Dwarf Red Dwarf Cuban Red Dwarf Jamaican Red Maroon AAA India Dwarf Red Fe'i Borabora / Polapola Mai'a He'i4 Tahitian banana - Feta'u Tongan Maoli-type bananas. See also "Hopa" AAB FHIA-015 Goldfinger AAAB FHIA-02 Mona Lisa AAAA C:\Documents and Settings\Scot Nelson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\6BU7SRE1\Haw'n Cv Synonym Table Aug 31 2007[1].doc AK Page 2 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:12 PM MAIN 1 CULTIVAR NAME PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I & INTERNATIONALLY GENOME IN HAWAI'I FHIA-03 Sweetheart SH-3565 AABB FHIA-18 SH-3480 High Noon (in error) AAAB (FHIA) High Noon SH-3640.105 AAAB Golden Aromatic Go San Heong AAA Golden Pillow (as yet unconfirmed AB presence in Hawai'i) Grande Naine "Chiquita"6 Giant Cavendish Pisang Ambon Jepang Chuoi Va Huong AAA Akadahn Green Macaboo Moradong Puti Green Red Cuban Yellow Kluai Kung Khieo Pisang Mundam/Telor Colorado blanco Manalele4 Pisang Raja Udang Hijau AA Rojo Verde Green Dacca Morado Verde Hamakua4 Buñgulan Jamaican Lacatan Pisang Ambon Lumut AAA Embun Kluai Hom Khieu/Kiau Pisang Masak Hijau False Lacatan Monte Cristo Tall Cavendish Hawaiian Apple see "Apple", tall AAB Tongan general term for Maoli, Pōpō'ulu or cultivars with AAB "Hopa" characters of both groups Horn Plantain / Cuerno Macho Puerto Rican plantain AAB Horn Kiwipipi (obs. Hawai'i) Pisang Byar Tindok Kluai Klai Pisang Tanduk Tondoc C:\Documents and Settings\Scot Nelson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\6BU7SRE1\Haw'n Cv Synonym Table Aug 31 2007[1].doc AK Page 3 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:12 PM MAIN 1 CULTIVAR NAME PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I & INTERNATIONALLY GENOME IN HAWAI'I Ice Cream Blue Java Fa'i Pata Sina Pata Hina Lahelahe ABB Blue Lubin Ney Mannan Pata Papalagi Kahiki Cream4 "cooking banana"7 Green-trunked Kahiki4 Kahiki4 ABB Cream "Ice Cream" (in error) Bluggoe Pisang Kosta Pisang Abu Keling ABB "butter banana" Kluai Hak Muk Khieo "plantain" Largo7 Chuoi Ngop Lun Matavia San Juan "cooking banana"7 Pata (Tonga) Square cooker "Ice Cream" (in error Hawai'i) Mai'a4 General term for Hawaiian traditional bananas, not treated in AAB this list. They include Iholena, Maoli & Pōpō'ulu groupings + (Pacific plantains) plus Mai'a Hāpai, a sweet dessert banana. We AA only found 44 recorded (past & present), with 23 currently alive. Amorosa Go-Sai-Heong Latundan8 /Manila Manzano/Manzana (true) Apple "Haole banana" Pisang Raja Sereh Chuoi Goong Kluai Nam (Pisang) Rastali Custard apple "Lady Finger"9 Silk / Silk fig AAB Chuoi Tieu Morong Datu Saing Tudlo Monkey Fingers Crocodile fingers (Pisang) Jari Buaya Tudló Datu AA "Dwarf Waimea" Kluai Kai Ferang Misi Peka Mysore Florida Misi Luki "Pang"10 AAB "Kahiki Hae4" "lady finger"9 Patele C:\Documents and Settings\Scot Nelson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\6BU7SRE1\Haw'n Cv Synonym Table Aug 31 2007[1].doc AK Page 4 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:12 PM MAIN 1 CULTIVAR NAME PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I & INTERNATIONALLY GENOME IN HAWAI'I Pacific plantains General grouping for Pacific-wide cultivars traditionally used for cooking but some are delicious raw when very ripe. See mai'a. AAB Pacovan Ken A new-&-improved cultivar, introduced from Brazil in 2007, very similar AAB to 'Dwarf Brazilian'. It will no doubt be called "apple banana". Philippine Lacatan "true" Lacatan11 AAA Pisang Awak12 Awak Katali Namwa ABB Ducasse Kluai Namwa Luang Pisang nangka Pisang Mas Amas Kluai Khai "monkey banana"13 AA Chuoi Trung "Lady finger"9 Sucrier Latundan8 Pisang Raja Kluai Khai Boran #2 (Pisang) Radja(h) Raja / Biu Raja AAB Pitogo Enetlog / Nilanzon Plátano Higo Ugly banana ABB Plantain, Common plátano / plántano Horse plantain "Latin American AAB monkey plantain Horn plantain (in error, plantain" Giant plantain Hawai'i) Maricongo Praying Hands Binendito / Benedetta Inabaniko Ripping ABB Puerto Rican Dwarf Plátano enano Macho enano ABB Plantain Putalinga Tongan Popo'ulu bananas, of which there are at least three in Hawai'i. AAB C:\Documents and Settings\Scot Nelson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\6BU7SRE1\Haw'n Cv Synonym Table Aug 31 2007[1].doc AK Page 5 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:12 PM MAIN 1 CULTIVAR NAME PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I & INTERNATIONALLY GENOME IN HAWAI'I See "Hopa" Raja Puri - AAB Saba (#2) 'Opu-'ulu4 Pisang Kepok / P. Kuning Chuoi Sap ABB/BBB Pisang Abu Nipah Turangkog San Pabló Cenizo Kluai Hak Muk Khao Pisang Kosta (Putih) Silver Bluggoe (Sabang) Katsila Pata sina / Pata Tonga Poro'ini rehu ABB Inahsio Pehsehs Pisang Abu Perak White Matavia Super Dwarf Cavendish Chinese Extra-Dwarf Dwarf Parfitt Dwarf NAthan AAA Thousand Fingers Chuoi Tram Nai Kluai Roi Wi/Wee (Pisang) Seribu AAB "Chiquita"6 Pisang Ambon Putih Robusta AAA Valery Chuoi Tieu Xanh Pisang Buai Tudok Congo Poyo Chuoi Tieu Nho Harichal Pisang Ambon Hijau AAA Giant Cavendish Kluai Khlong Chang Siaine Williams Giant Chinese Mons Mari Utin Wai Gran Enano Pisang Cina Williams Hybrid Yangambi Ibota Kilometer 5 Pisang Kipas AAA Iukombi Kehuahi Yangambi Km 5 SEEDED BANANAS C:\Documents and Settings\Scot Nelson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\6BU7SRE1\Haw'n Cv Synonym Table Aug 31 2007[1].doc AK Page 6 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:12 PM MAIN 1 CULTIVAR NAME PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS IN HAWAI'I & INTERNATIONALLY GENOME IN HAWAI'I Abacá "fiber banana" Maguindanao / Manila hemp Musa textilis - Balbisiana Balayang Musa balbisiana "seeded apple BB "Devil banana" Mai'a 'Oa4 (in error, banana" (in Koana4 Hawai'i) error, Hawai'i) Beccarii Musa beccarii Ornamental red banana - Musa velutina Hot pink banana Self-peeling b. Fuzzy Pink Fuzzy banana Pink banana velvety (pink) b. Hairy banana pink-fruited banana velvet banana - Laterita Ornata Bronze (in Musa laterita Red Salmon - error, nursery trade) M. ornata (in error, Hawai'i) Ornata Musa ornata Flowering banana Ornamental banana - Red Abyssinian Ensete Maurelii Musa ventricosum - banana 'Maurelii' Red-flowering Coccinea Okinawa torch Red torch banana - banana Musa coccinea Red flowering (Thai) banana Scarlet banana Rock banana Ensete Ensete superbum - Rowe Red a dwarf Zebrina AA Zebrina Mai'a 'Oa / 'Oa4 Musa acuminata zebrina Sumatrana AA Blood banana Mai'a Poni4 Variegated Red b. C:\Documents and Settings\Scot Nelson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\6BU7SRE1\Haw'n Cv Synonym Table Aug 31 2007[1].doc AK Page 7 Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:12 PM 1 Banana cultivars, being far below the species level, are highly variable due to genetic, environmental, geographic factors as well as length of time they have been isolated from the parent clone. Since very few cultivars have ever been morphologically described in detail, some "synonyms" may differ in slight details in different areas. Synonymns chosen for this table reflect Hawai'i's multiracial ethnic background. We have tried assiduously to present only those which we have confirmed as correct. However, since all banana literature (particularly the Internet) is rife with errors, we have not been able to check every cultivar name overseas which is said to be synonymous with its Hawaiian equivalent. In addition, Hawai'i residents are grossly uninformed about banana cultivars; most know only "apple" bananas, and only then by taste. 2 Underlined names indicate standard international names. These may, or may not, be the main vernacular cultivar name in Hawai'i. Normally cultivar names are enclosed in single quotes; these are omitted here in the interests of space. 3 An old name in Hawai'i, still in use, pronounced "Pah-kay", the Hawaiian word for "Chinese" 4 Hawaiian names or the designation "Mai'a" have been given to several cultivars introduced to Hawai'i post-Contact: fe'i is probably the only one which likely came in ancient times.
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