which country did the bananan plant come from?

Answer 1

Origin and history of Banana Plant-

There is a wide variety of historic references to bananas.

They are mentioned in ancient Hindu, Chinese, Greek and Roman texts.

It is believed that the earliest written reference to banana is in Sankrist and dates back to around 500 BC. Bananas are suspected to be the first fruit on the earth by some horticulturists.

The origin of bananas is placed in Southeast Asia, in the jungles of Malaysia, Indonesia or Philippines, where so many varieties of wild bananas still grow at present.

Bananas have later travelled with human population.

The first Europeans to know about bananas were the armies of Alexander the Great, while they were campaigning in India in 327 BC. In the Middle Ages, the banana was thought to be the forbidden fruit of paradise by both Moslems and Christians.

The Arabs brought them to Africa. Africans are credited to have given the present name, since the word banana would be derived from the Arab finger.

The Portuguese brought them to the Canary Islands. Bananas changed during all these trips, gradually losing its seeds, filling out with flesh and diversifying.

When Spaniards and Portuguese explorers went to the New World, the banana travelled with them. In 1516, when Fiar Tomas de Berlanga sailed to Santo Domingo, he brought banana roots with him. From there, bananas spread to the Caribbean and Latin American countries.

Bananas started to be traded internationally by the end of XIX century.

Before that date, Europeans and North Americans could not enjoy them because of the lack of appropriate transport for bananas.

The development of railroads and technological advances in regrigerated maritime tranport allowed for bananas to become the most important world traded fruit.

Answer 2

This site says it was Malaysia.

http://www.banana.com/

Answer 3

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