Description: The banana tree, also called Kedi (G.) is originated from Southwestern Asia. It is cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions. According to Sucilabai Ramgi, this plant came from the Quinta da Montanha (The Dutch neighborhood) in the Areeiro area, in Lisbon, where they lived when they came to Portugal from Mozambique in the seventies. They lived there until the demolition of the neighborhood. According to Ramgi, the banana leaves are used in Hindu ceremonies. There is a tradition in which the banana tree sap ingestion allows the control of the sexual libido. (*)
Provided by: Sucilabai Ramgi, a Mozambique-born Portuguese.
Present Location: Vitoria Garden Collection (it was transplanted from Quinta da Vitoria neighborhood in October 2014)
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 later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
(G.) Word in Gujarate language.
