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Ravenala grandis, contractile roots, Beforona, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, young individual with the base of the future stipe deeply buried in the soil due to the activity of contractile roots, Beforona, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Patrick Blanc climbing on a hill to observe Ravanala grandis, Beforona, Madagascar, June 1998, photo Pascal Heni
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Patrick Blanc and Nelson Rabenandrianina in the highly disturbed slopy Ravenala grandis habitat, Beforona, Madagascar, June 1998, photo Pascal Heni
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Patrick Blanc and Nelson Rabenandrianina digging out a Ravenala grandis seedling, Beforona, Madagascar, June 1998, photo Pascal Heni
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Ravenala grandis, young individual with the base of the future stipe deeply buried in the soil due to the contractile roots, Beforona, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, hollowed stipes used by local populations for flooring in houses, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala grandis, Ranomafana, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala grandis, symmetric sides of the fan leaf arrangement, two successive leaves producing inflorescences separated by four sterile leaves, Moramanga, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala grandis, infructescences, Ranomafana, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala grandis, between Ranomafana and Kianjavato, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala grandis, emerging new inflorescences and old infructescences with mature fruits, between Ranomafana and Kianjavato, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala grandis, leaf sheaths and infructescence, between Ranomafana and Kianjavato, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala grandis, infructescence exposing the ripe capsular fruits in the open bracts, between Ranomafana and Kianjavato, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Patrick Blanc observing the inflorescence of Ravenala grandis, Beforona, Madagascar, June 1998, photo Pascal Heni
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Ravenala grandis, young nflorescence, Beforona, Madagascar, photo Pascal Heni
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Ravenala agatheae, dense population of suckering individuals creating a so called Ravenala forest at the periphery of a seasonal swamp, Ambilobe, Madagascar
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Ravenala agatheae, Manehoko, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala agatheae, flowering and fruiting individuals, Manehoko, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala agatheae, inflorescences and old infructescences, Manehoko, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala agatheae, inflorescences and old infructescences, cultivated in Diego Suarez, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala agatheae, green and white outer parts of leaf sheath and dark purple inside adaxial open parts, Diego Suarez, Madagascar
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Ravenala agatheae, dark purple brown open sheath of the leaf, Diego Suarez, Madagascar
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Ravenala agatheae, dark purple brown striation in the open leaf sheath, Ambilobe, Madagascar
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Patrick Blanc between Ravenala sp. nov. Gold and Green with long petioles and the more compact Ravenala agatheae, Ambatozavavy, Nosy Be, Madagascar, Aug. 2024
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Ravenala madagascariensis in acidic swampy lowgrounds with Pandanus sp. pl., Ambila Lamaitso, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis, dense population of suckering individuals along a river bank, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis, reflection in a swamp, Ambila Lamaitso, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis in acidic swampy lowground, suckering habit and characteristic lax arrangement of the bracts in maturing infructescences, Ambila Lamaitso, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis in acidic swampy lowgrounds, characteristic elongation of the axis between successive bracts in mature infructescences, Ambila Lamaitso, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis, forest of suckering cespitose individuals at the base of slopes at low altitude, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis, forest of suckering cespitose individuals in swampy low ground at the base of slopes at low altitude, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis, inflorescences with numerous bracts, with short internodes during anthesis then elongating during fruit maturation, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis, juvenile or pseudo juvenile individuals dur to recurrent fires, the apex protected under ground surface due to contractile roots, Ambila Lemaitso, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis, seedlings or pseudo seedlings due to recurrent fires, the apex remaining protected thanks to the contractile roots, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala madagascariensis infructescence, drawing by Sonnerat in 1782, Plate 126, designed as the lectotype of the species due to the characteristic axis elongation between bracts during fruit maturation
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Ravenala madagascariensis, characteristic lax infructescence, the axis elongation between bracts during fruit maturation being similar to the lectotype drawing by Sonnerat in 1782, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala madagascariensis, seeds with bright blue aril and once aril removed, Brickaville, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala cf. madagascariensis at the Jardin des Pamplemousses, Mauritius, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala cf. madagascariensis, a tall suckering clump, Ferney, Mauritius, photo Patrick Blanc