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Musa × paradisiaca is the accepted name for the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are triploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alone.
Learn about Musa x paradisiaca, a large, fast-growing, evergreen perennial that produces sweet, juicy bananas. Find out its hardiness, climate zones, growth requirements, and garden uses.
Plantain, Musa × paradisiaca, is a vegetable crop with long, firm and starchy fruits. Learn about its description, uses, propagation, diseases and pests from PlantVillage.
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Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation ty...Barger, T.W. & al. (2012). New and noteworthy records for the flora of Alabama. Castanea 77: 257-269.Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 2(2): 1-94. ORSTOM, Bangui.Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R.,...FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plantsGBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookupMusa × paradisiaca is a hybrid of Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, native to Malesia and widely introduced. It is a herbaceous tree with edible fruits and various uses as food, medicine and invertebrate food.
Musa × paradisiaca ( M. acuminata × M. balbisiana) is a sterile triploid that is cultivated in warm climates for its tasty yellow-skinned fruit (bananas). It is commonly called edible banana or French plantain. Many cultivars are available in commerce, ranging in height from 7’ to 25’ tall.
Banana ( Musa x paradisiaca L., Musaceae) represents one of the most important fruit crops, with a global annual production of more than 50 million tons. Peels constitute up to 30% of the ripe fruit. About 1000 banana plants are estimated to yield 20–25 tons of pseudostems providing about 5% edible starch ( Anand and Maini, 1997 ).
Musa paradisiaca is the first Linnean name given to a banana and is therefore technically the "type species" for the genus Musa 1 . The name was coined by Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, who borrowed the name for the genus from Georg Eberhard Rumphius 2 .
