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The banana leaf is the leaf of the banana plant, which may produce up to 40 leaves in a growing cycle. [1] The leaves have a wide range of applications because they are large, flexible, waterproof and decorative. They are used for cooking, wrapping, [2] and food-serving in a wide range of cuisines in tropical and subtropical areas.
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 (rhizome), a false trunk or pseudostem formed by the basal parts of tightly rolled leaves, a network of roots, and a large flower spike.
Description. Musa acuminata is classified by botanists as an herbaceous plant and an evergreen and a perennial, but not as a tree. The trunk (known as the pseudostem) is made of tightly packed layers of leaf sheaths emerging from completely or partially buried corms. [8] The leaves are at the top of the leaf sheaths, or petioles and in the ...
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 ().
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 alone.
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 ...
Musa balbisiana. Original native ranges of the ancestors of modern edible bananas: M. acuminata is shown in green and M. balbisiana in orange. [3] M. liukiuensis (Matsum.) Makino ex Kuroiwa. M. × paradisiaca var. granulosa G.Forst. Musa balbisiana, also known simply as plantain, is a wild-type species of banana.
Tabernaemontana pandacaqui is native to China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia and many Pacific islands. [7] Plants in the Mariana islands of Guam and Rota are now considered to be a separate species, Tabernaemontana rotensis. [8][better source needed] It is found in a wide variety of habitats, particularly in drier areas ...