Gros Michel Banana
- Womenscorner Desk
- November 3, 2020
Gros Michel, often referred to as "Big Mike", is an export cultivar of banana and was, until the 1950s, the most variety grown. The physical properties of the Gros Michel make it a superb export produce; its thick peel makes it resilient to bruising during transport and therefore the dense bunches that it grows in make it easy to ship.
French naturalist Nicolas Baudin carried a couple of corms of this banana from Southeast Asia, depositing them at a arboretum on the Caribbean Island of Martinique. In 1835, French botanist Jean François Pouyat carried Baudin's fruit from Martinique to Jamaica. Gros Michel bananas were grown on massive plantations in Honduras, Costa Rica, et al. in Central America.
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This variety was once the dominant export banana to Europe and North America, grown in Central America, but within the 1950s, Panama disease, a wilt caused by the fungus. Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, exhausted vast tracts of Gros Michel plantations in Central America, though it's still grown on non-infected land throughout the region.
By the 1960s, the exporters of Gros Michel bananas were unable to stay trading such a susceptible cultivar, and began growing resistant cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup.
Origin- Martinique, Jamaica
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