Gros Michel

Gros Michel

Unknown. This name for the cultivar is attested from the late 19th century in Caribbean usage. Prior to that (since 1835), it was known as Poyo, after Jean François Pouyat, the botanist who imported it to Jamaica, whence it spread throughout the rest of the Caribbean. Its first-ever common name was Figue Baudin (literally “Baudin Banana”), in the early 19th century, from Haitian Creole fig (“banana”, spelled as figue in French) + (Nicolas) Baudin, a French naturalist and explorer who first broug