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Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains, and fiber , used to make paper and cloth. [2] [3] 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.
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.
Musa × paradisiaca is a species as well as a cultivar, originating as the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, cultivated and domesticated by human very early.. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are polyploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alo
[1] [2] These taxa differentiate from the "ginger-families" derived clade by their plesiomorphic state of five or six fertile stamens, [1] [2] [5] and generally have large banana-like [1] [2] leaves that are easily torn [5] between secondary veins. Morphologically, this is a more homogeneous group than the "ginger-families" clade. [2]
The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. [2] All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure called a corm. [3] Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy with a treelike appearance, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a pseudostem composed of multiple leaf-stalks ().
Left to right: plantains, Red, Latundan, and Cavendish bananas The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. Almost all modern cultivated varieties of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana.
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Articles on the species and botany of the genus to which they belong are placed in the Category:Musa (genus). Articles on cultivars and groups of cultivars are placed in the subcategory Category:Banana cultivars.