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Growing up with bananas / Tesco.

Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

5 a-day the easy way with bananas : quick and easy serving suggestions inside / Tesco.

Banana plant (Musa species): flowering and fruiting plant with stolons and separate floral segments and sectioned fruit, also a description of the plant's growth, anatomical labels and a scale bar. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1742, after himself.

A man holding a peeled banana which is covered with a condom and has the logo of the Hot Rubber Company; advertising a brand of condoms for AIDS prevention. Colour lithograph by the Hot Rubber Company Deutschland, 199-.

Plantain banana (Musa paradisiaca L.): fruiting branch with sections of flowers and fruit. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Two banana plants (Musa species) and a date palm tree. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

A banana enclosed in a transparent bag representing an analogy with condoms and sexual protection as an AIDS prevention advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by John Clang Photography, ca. 1997.

A fiatooka, or burial place, on Tongatapu island. Engraving by W. Ellis, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1783.

The new banana.

Shoot-tip culture for the propagation, conservation and exchange of Musa germplasm / D.R. Vuylsteke.

Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.

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Musa

Images from the collections

Images referencing Musa

Works from the collections

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

A fiatooka, or burial place, on Tongatapu island. Engraving by W. Ellis, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1783.

The new banana.

Shoot-tip culture for the propagation, conservation and exchange of Musa germplasm / D.R. Vuylsteke.

Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.

Musa

Images from the collections

Images referencing Musa

Works from the collections

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

A fiatooka, or burial place, on Tongatapu island. Engraving by W. Ellis, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1783.

The new banana.

Shoot-tip culture for the propagation, conservation and exchange of Musa germplasm / D.R. Vuylsteke.

Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.

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