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  2. Ensete perrieri - Wikipedia

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    The Madagascar banana tree is a herbaceous tree. [4] It loses all of its leaves in the dry season with only a pseudostem of leaf-sheaths remaining. [5] A typical Madagascar banana tree is 5 to 6 metres (16 to 20 ft) high, with a trunk swollen at the base into a thick tuber 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in circumference. The roots are white, cylindrical and ...

  3. Musa (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Banana plants are among the largest extant herbaceous plants, some reaching up to 9 m (30 ft) in height or 18 m (59 ft) in the case of Musa ingens.The large herb is composed of a modified underground stem (), a false trunk or pseudostem formed by the basal parts of tightly rolled leaves, a network of roots, and a large flower spike.

  4. Musaceae - Wikipedia

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    Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with about 91 known species, [3] placed in the order Zingiberales. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be woody trees.

  5. Ensete - Wikipedia

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    Ensete is a genus of monocarpic flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. It is one of the three genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important food crop in Ethiopia. [1] [2] [3]

  6. Musa acuminata - Wikipedia

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    Musa acuminata is a species of banana native to Southern Asia, its range comprising the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Many of the modern edible dessert bananas are from this species, although some are hybrids with Musa balbisiana. [5] First cultivated by humans around 8000 BCE, [6] [7] it is one of the early examples of domesticated ...

  7. List of tree genera - Wikipedia

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    Dracaena, Dragon tree; Yucca, Joshua tree etc. Arecaceae (Palmae) (Palm family) Areca, Areca; Cocos nucifera, Coconut; Phoenix, Date Palm etc. Trachycarpus, Chusan Palm etc. Poaceae (grass family) Bamboos, Poaceae subfamily Bambusoideae, around 92 genera; Note that banana 'trees' are not actually trees; they are not woody nor is the stalk ...

  8. Commelinids - Wikipedia

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    In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids [1] [2]) is a clade of flowering plants within the monocots, distinguished by having cell walls containing ferulic acid.

  9. International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants

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    Amendments to the ICNCP are prompted by international symposia for cultivated plant taxonomy which allow for rulings made by the International Commission on the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants. Each new version includes a summary of the changes made to the previous version; the changes have also been summarised for the period 1953 to 1995.