Cooking bananas are a group of banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking. They are not eaten raw and are generally starchy. Many cooking bananas are referred to as
Large bunch of green bananas
From left to right: plantain, red banana, apple banana, and Cavendish banana
Saba bananas – Musa 'Saba' (ABB Group)
Pazham pori, a plantain dish from south India
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit that is botanically a berry produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are cal
Cooking banana
…Cooking bananas are a group of banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking. They are not eaten raw and are generally starchy. Many cooking bananas are…
A corm, about 25 cm (10 in) across
Female flowers have petals at the tip of the ovary