Tropical Plant "Cassabanana"
Sicana odorifera

Characteristics - The cassabanana is a fruit bearer, once widely cultivated in domestic archards. Today it is less favored. It is rarely found in its natural habitat, southern Brazil. It is a trailing or climbing herbaceous vine, 3erennial, with angular, sarmentose stems, ^eaves are simple, irregularly lobed, hirsute-subescent, 20-30 cm in diameter. Flowers are solitary, axillary, unisexual, with both sexes )resent on the same plant. They form from une to September. Fruits are large, cilindrical, irown, maroon or black berries with many eeds, surrounded by fleshy, soft or hard aro-natic yellow pulp, with a slightly sweet flavor, "hey ripen during the summer.

Uses - The fruits are consumed only in their latural state and are considered pleasant isting .

Propagation - Propagated by seeds.