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Image number: 2241
Feature : Banana palm
Grouping : food crops, legumes and fruits
Discipline : agriculture
Year : 2007
Locality : Rutongo
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Kigali-Byumba
Physiographic region : Interlacustrine belt
Notice : Bananas are a consistent part of the usual meal ingredients in Eastern Congo and the region of the big lakes. Bananas grow in crops on a vertical stem and their ends tend to grow upwards to seek the light. So they become bent.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2007    Image 2241.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"