Banana, Musa acuminata. Native to Southern Asia, cultivated as dessert bananas. The Cavendish plantain, Musa cavendishii. Named for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, whose gardener Sir Joseph Paxton cultivated them in the hothouse at Chatsworth House. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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