Description: The banana tree is native to Southeast Asia, planted in tropical and subtropical areas. This tree was found on a farm belonging to a family resident in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória, who currently lives in England. Associated uses are unknown. (*)
Provided by: Caussiccumar Gechande, a Mozambique-born Portuguese.
Present Location: It was destroyed as the garden was levelled.
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and after the demolition in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
