Banana - Wikipedia
WEBA banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry [1] – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas.
Musaceae - Wikipedia
WEBAs currently circumscribed the family includes three genera. All genera and species are native to the Old World tropics. The largest and most economically important genus in the family is Musa, famous for the banana and plantain.
Musaceae | Banana, Plantain & Enset | Britannica
WEBMusaceae, the banana family of plants (order Zingiberales), consisting of 2 genera, Musa and Ensete, with about 50 species native to Africa, Asia, and Australia. The common banana (M. sapientum) is a subspecies of the plantain (M. paradisiaca).
Banana | Description, History, Cultivation, Nutrition, Benefits ...
WEBSep 17, 2024 · banana, fruit of the genus Musa, of the family Musaceae, one of the most important fruit crops of the world. The banana is grown in the tropics, and, though it is most widely consumed in those regions, it is valued worldwide for its flavour, nutritional value, and availability throughout the year.
Musa (genus) - Wikipedia
WEBMusa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbaceous plants.
Bananas - Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 23, 2018 · Bananas, plantains, and their relatives are various species of plants in the family Musaceae. There are about 40 species in this family, divided among only two genera. The most diverse genus is Musa, containing 35 species of bananas and plantains, followed by Ensete, the Abyssinian bananas.
The Biology of the Banana - UCSC
WEBThe banana, also known as a plantain, is giant herbaceous plant native to the South Pacific. The plant itself has a rather confusing taxonomical hierarchy. In general, “banana” is the name given to those plants that produce a sweeter form of fruit, one that is often consumed uncooked, such as the “desert bananas” that make up most of ...
banana summary | Britannica
WEBbanana, Fruit of the genus Musa (family Musaceae), a gigantic herbaceous plant spread by rhizomes, and one of the most important food crops of the world.
A multi gene sequence-based phylogeny of the Musaceae (banana) family
WEBApr 16, 2011 · The classification of the Musaceae (banana) family species and their phylogenetic inter-relationships remain controversial, in part due to limited nucleotide information to complement the morphological and physiological characters.
BANANA – Name, Taxonomy, Botany - International Tropical …
WEBMar 16, 2016 · Banana and plantain (Musa spp., or Musa in this document) are giant perennial herbs which originated in Southeast Asia. The cultivated banana is often listed in botanical references as Musa x paradisiaca (Musaceae), although it is actually a complex hybrid derived from two diploid Asian species, M. acuminata and M. balbisiana.