Search results
Around 80, see text . Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains. 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.
6 days ago · banana, fruit of the genus Musa, of the family Musaceae, one of the most important fruit crops of the world. The banana is grown in the tropics, and, though it is most widely consumed in those regions, it is valued worldwide for its flavour, nutritional value, and availability throughout the year.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Musa 'Nendran' cultivar, grown widely in the Indian state of Kerala. The genus Musa was created by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The name may be derived from Antonius Musa, physician to the Emperor Augustus, or Linnaeus may have adapted the Arabic word for banana, mauz.
- Fruit
- Musa
- Food
May 15, 2024 · plantain, major group of banana varieties (genus Musa) that are staple foods in many tropical areas. The edible fruit of plantain bananas has more starch than the common dessert banana and is not eaten raw. Because plantains have the most starch before they ripen, they are usually cooked green, either boiled or fried, in savory dishes.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
There are about fifty recognized species of banana, all under the genus Musa, but given the long history of banana hybridization, and the creation of plants with two or three sets of chromosomes (diploid and triploid), it can be difficult for the casual observer to distinguish between banana varieties. Perhaps the easiest classification of the ...
The largest and most economically important genus in the family is Musa, famous for the banana and plantain. The genus Musa was formally established in the first edition of Linnaeus ' Species Plantarum in 1753 — the publication that marks the start of the present formal botanical nomenclature .
Apr 7, 2019 · Musa is the name of the genus to which wild and cultivated bananas belong. In the hierarchy of botanical classification, a genus comes above species and below family.
