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I REGRET that in the notice of my recent discourse at the Royal Institution (NATURE, April 24, p. 597) it is stated that “the available evidence points to South America as the original home of the banana”. Reference was made to the views that have been held by various authorities as to the original home of the edible banana, and it was pointed out that from all the evidence at present available the balance was in favour of Indo-Malaya as the probable home of the seedless forms now so widely cultivated.
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HILL, A. The Original Home of the Banana. Nature 117, 757 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117757c0
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