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Green banana without spadix,all the flowers of spadix give fruits
Ripe seedless banana- PADMA KALA(In Bengali)
Nagendranath Bardhan, Umapur Village, Santipur Block, Nadia District,WB India.The custodian of this rare variety.
The banana you see is a rare one.
The special feature is that
the spadix exhausts all its flowers into fruits and
no remnant of spadix is left.
It is very tasty and contains no seeds.
It is called PADMA KALA( Lotus banana)
Green pods of sword bean(Makhan sim in Bengali)
The climber-sword bean on a big tree
Matured pods to used for seeds
The climber you see is called MAKHAN SIM( Butter bean)
The pods are big in size, fleshy and climbs well on big trees.
It is almost lost, not found in the market.
It does not require any extra care, fertlizer and pesticide
The climber gives fruit in three months time
What about the fruiting during the next year?
Next year we will find new plants from seeds