"There is nothing so delicious as a banana"
--Sir Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
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Plantains and Bananas
(Musa paradisiaca)
The banana orginated in India, where it was known as "the fruit of the wise." In 1516, Spanish missionary Friar Tomas de Berlanga carried it from the Canary Islands to the New World--it landed in Haiti, but soon spread to Mexico.