India (Bombay Presidency, Nasik district, Akola): stem of tree eaten raw. (Rajasthan, western): tuber [sic] boiled, dried and crushed with leaf sheath and center core and eaten as a vegetable; stem ...

While preparing for this article, I had a nostalgic feeling of my days in secondary school. My agricultural science teacher told us that the botanical name of plantain is Musa paradisiaca. It was ...