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Musaceae

12 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Liliopsida › Zingiberales › Musaceae

Ensete ventricosum, the false banana, is a large banana-like plant and key food staple in Ethiopia, also grown ornamentally.

Musa acuminata Colla is an herbaceous perennial that is the wild ancestor of most modern edible dessert banana cultivars.

Musa ornata is an ornamental seeded banana species native to Southeast Asia, with edible buds and medicinal uses.

Musa velutina, the pink hairy wild banana from Assam and eastern Himalayas, grown ornamentally and has edible sweet flesh.

Musa balbisiana Colla is a wild banana species that is the ancestor of most cultivated edible bananas, with some edible clones existing.

Musa rubra is a wild banana species native to South and Southeast Asia, grown as an ornamental under its synonym.

Musa coccinea is an ornamental evergreen banana species native to tropical China and Vietnam, grown for its bright red flower bracts.

Musa basjoo is an inedible hardy herbaceous perennial banana cultivated as an ornamental, for fiber, and used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Musa itinerans, the Yunnan banana, is an edible wild banana species from continental Southeast Asia important for wild Asian elephants.

Musa banksii F.Muell. is a wild banana species whose classification as a distinct species or a Musa acuminata subspecies has changed over time.

Ensete superbum is a banana relative found across much of India, with distinct growth traits and an undescribed similar relative in Thailand.

Musella lasiocarpa is a Chinese mountain plant recognizable by its erect yellow pseudostems that resemble a lotus before opening.

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