The strange banana species in the middle of Xuan Son forest is still alone, finishing and killing itself

Located at the end of the Hoang Lien Son mountain range, Xuan Son National Park - belonging to Tan Son district (Phu Tho province), is the only place in the country with primitive forests on limestone and unique, unique banana species. named 'lonely'.

The reason this species of banana is 'lonely' because according to legend, the old people in Xuan Son commune, Tan Son district (Phu Tho province) recounted: In the old days, in this mountain forest, there was a couple of men and women playing. close to each other since childhood. Always together, the love that arises in them is always bad and increasingly passionate.

This banana species grows in primeval forest on limestone.

The couple wished they would be together to the end of their teeth. However, when the day came for the girl to come home to the boy, her parents made her break the oath because they discovered the boy suddenly had a strange disease.

Knowing why the person she wanted to pair with was not accepted by her parents, the girl loved and loved the boy even more. Unfortunately, the family of the boy who saw his daughter's daughter's refusal was narcissistic and determined to prevent this marriage.

Because of love, the two decided to flee to the forest to live together.

To avoid wild animals, they must climb hidden high rock caves. Unfortunately, only a short time later, the young man began to become seriously ill. Painfully and blaming himself for tormenting his lover, after finding a safe shelter for the girl, one late night the boy left.

Lonely banana tree has a height of 4-5m, a huge root diameter.

Days passed, did not see the lover returned, the girl was extremely worried. After many weary nights of waiting, the girl decided to look for the boy. She went forever in the forest but couldn't find it forever. One day, when she searched the abyss, she discovered a body.

Alarmed by the horrific scene, the girl became even more painful when she realized the boy's necklace. She realized that he had suicidal to free her. So sad that after giving birth, she also died and turned into a banana tree.

Later, when a Dao Tien went to the forest to plant and did not see this banana tree, he produced a small banana, only saw the ripe fruit and then died on its own, so it was named a lonely banana.

In fact, this banana is called 'lonely' because from germination to flowering, it refuses to give birth to the seedlings but waits for the fruit to ripen, and the mother body will wilt itself. , the end of a lonely banana tree.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Thuan - International Cooperation Department, Xuan Son National Park (Phu Tho province) said: Lonely banana is also known as mint banana. The tree is distributed mainly in the core and buffer zone of Xuan Son National Park.

Lonely banana tree has a height of 4-5m, very large root diameter, can be up to 40cm if grown in good soil. The stems, leaves and flowers of the lonely banana tree are green in color. When a lonely banana tree comes out of the chamber, the fruit is completely enclosed in the sack of flowers.

Lonely bananas are also known as mint bananas.

Lonely bananas are as big as chalk bananas, when ripe are orange-yellow, quite sweet and have many big seeds like corn kernels. Each bunch of lonely bananas has about a hundred fruits. The life of a lonely banana tree is more than a year.

If the weather is cold and the lonely banana tree grows slowly, it can last up to 2 years. When flowering and ripe yellow fruit, the leaves hang down and the lonely banana tree dies. The locals said that in the past, the trunk, tree and flowers, fruits of this lonely banana tree were often used by people for daily vegetables.

Not only that, the lonely banana tree is also used as medicine, the lonely banana tree is used to treat many diseases such as kidney stones, edema, stomach and intestinal ulcers, etc. Different doctors will take the parts on a lonely banana tree to cure.

The way to get medicine is also very simple. However , official research and conclusions from scientists about the healing effects of this lonely banana tree are currently unavailable . Currently, lonely bananas are no longer much because when the fruit ripens and falls to the ground, most of them are eaten by the wild birds and the banana seeds are quite brittle and fragile when chewed down, so it's difficult to propagate naturally. towel.

In Xuan Son, there are only a few lonely banana trees in the natural forest and home gardens of some local people due to propagation. To protect the source of this special lonely banana, officials and staff of Xuan Son National Park went to the forest to accomodate to the park's campus.

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