Latundan bananas are triploid hybrid banana

Banana

Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....

 cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

s from the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It is one of the most common banana cultivars in the Philippines, along with the Lacatan

Lacatan banana

Lacatan bananas , are diploid banana cultivars from the Philippines. It is one of the most common banana cultivars in the Philippines, along with the Latundan and Saba bananas.-Taxonomy and Nomenclature:...

 and Saba

Saba banana

Saba banana, also known as Cardaba banana, is a triploid hybrid banana cultivar originating from the Philippines. It is primarily a cooking banana though it can also be eaten raw. It is one of the most important banana varieties in Philippine cuisine....

 bananas.

Taxonomy

In older classifications, the Latundan cultivar was once the plant referred to as Musa sapientum. It has since been discovered that Musa sapientum is actually a hybrid cultivar of the wild seeded bananas Musa balbisiana

Musa balbisiana

Musa balbisiana is a species of wild banana native to South Asia. It is one of the ancestors of modern cultivated bananas along with Musa acuminata. It grows lush leaves in clumps and grows with a more upright habit than most cultivated bananas. Flowers grow in inflorescences coloured red to...

 and Musa acuminata

Musa acuminata

Musa acuminata is a species of wild banana native to Southeast Asia. It is the progenitor of modern edible bananas, along with Musa balbisiana. First cultivated by humans around 8000 years ago, it is one of the earliest examples of domesticated plants.-Taxonomy and nomenclature:Musa acuminata...

 and not a species.

The Latundan banana is a triploid (AAB) hybrid.

Its official designation is Musa acuminata × balbisiana Colla (AAB Group) cv. 'Silk'.

Synonyms

Synonym (taxonomy)

In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that is or was used for a taxon of organisms that also goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies...

 include:

• Musa × paradisiaca L. subsp. sapientum (L.) C. E. O. Kuntze
• Musa × paradisiaca var. dacca (P. F. Horaninow) J. G. Baker ex K. M. Schumann
• Musa × sapientum L.
• Musa × paradisiaca L. ssp. sapientum (L.) Kuntze var. cubensis
• Musa × paradisiaca L.
• Musa acuminata × balbisiana Colla.
• Musa cliffortiana L.
• Musa dacca P. F. Horaninow
• Musa rosacea N. J. von Jacquin

Description

Latundan bananas typically reach a height of 10 to 13 feet. They require full or partial sun exposure. The flowers are yellow, purple, or ivory in color. The fruits are round-tipped with thin yellow skin that splits once fully ripe. They are smaller than the Lacatan

Lacatan banana

Lacatan bananas , are diploid banana cultivars from the Philippines. It is one of the most common banana cultivars in the Philippines, along with the Latundan and Saba bananas.-Taxonomy and Nomenclature:...

 cultivar and the commercially dominant Cavendish bananas. They have a slightly acidic, apple-like flavor.

Uses

Latundan bananas are popular dessert bananas. They are also cultivated as ornamental plants.

See also

• Banana
  Banana
  Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
  
  
• Banana Cultivar Groups
  Banana cultivar groups
  Almost all modern edible banana and plantain cultivars are hybrids and polyploids of the wild, seeded bananas Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. They are almost always seedless and hence sterile, so they are propagated vegetatively...
  
  
• Musa
  Musa (genus)
  Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae; it includes bananas and plantains. There are over 50 species of Musa with a broad variety of uses....
  
  
• Musa acuminata
  Musa acuminata
  Musa acuminata is a species of wild banana native to Southeast Asia. It is the progenitor of modern edible bananas, along with Musa balbisiana. First cultivated by humans around 8000 years ago, it is one of the earliest examples of domesticated plants.-Taxonomy and nomenclature:Musa acuminata...
  
  
• Musa balbisiana
  Musa balbisiana
  Musa balbisiana is a species of wild banana native to South Asia. It is one of the ancestors of modern cultivated bananas along with Musa acuminata. It grows lush leaves in clumps and grows with a more upright habit than most cultivated bananas. Flowers grow in inflorescences coloured red to...
  
  
• Plantain
  Plantain
  Plantain is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa. The fruit they produce is generally used for cooking, in contrast to the soft, sweet banana...