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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 ().
Most banana cultivars which exhibit purely or mostly Musa acuminata genomes are dessert bananas, while hybrids of M. acuminata and M. balbisiana are mostly cooking bananas or plantains. [23] Musa acuminata is one of the earliest plants to be domesticated by humans for agriculture, 7,000 years ago in New Guinea and Wallacea. [24]
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.
Banana Yoshimoto, pen name of the Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (born 1964) Lowell Levinger, member of The Youngbloods. Surname. Anna Banana, alias of the Canadian artist Anne Lee Long (born 1940) Canaan Banana (1936–2003), Methodist minister and first president of Zimbabwe; Janet Banana (1938–2021), Zimbabwean socialite and wife of ...
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
Banana (4011) is the one I type most. Followed by lemons (4053), limes (4048), sweet potato (4816), and English cucumber (4593). 4077 is popular right now, because corn. 4225, avocado.
A. triloba is often called wild banana, Indiana banana, or prairie banana because of its banana-like creamy texture and flavor. The earliest documented mention of pawpaws is in the 1541 report of the Spanish de Soto expedition, who found Native Americans east of the Mississippi River cultivating what some have identified as the pawpaw. [82]
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