Musa (plant)
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Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 fruit species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains, and fiber, used to make paper and cloth. Though they
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Serving food on a banana leaf is a popular tradition in certain parts of India, Sri Lanka, and parts of Southeast Asia.
Fruit stalk of Musa sp.
Banana flowers
Banana
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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
Musa (plant)
…Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 fruit species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains (also known as cooking bananas), and fiber (abacá), used to make paper and cloth. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain…
Fruits of four different cultivars. Left to right: plantain, red banana, apple banana, and Cavendish banana
A corm, about 25 cm (10 in) across
Young plant
Female flowers have petals at the tip of the ovary