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  2. 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.

  3. Ensete ventricosum - Wikipedia

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    Ensete ventricosum, commonly known as enset or ensete, Ethiopian banana, Abyssinian banana, [3] pseudo-banana, false banana and wild banana, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the banana family Musaceae. The domesticated form of the plant is cultivated only in Ethiopia, where it provides the staple food for approximately 20 million people.

  4. Musa basjoo - Wikipedia

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    Musa basjoo, known variously as Japanese banana, [2] Japanese fibre banana [3] or hardy banana, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the banana family Musaceae.

  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. List of banana cultivars - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. Almost all modern cultivated varieties ( cultivars ) of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana .

  7. Banana - Wikipedia

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    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 ().

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...

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