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Banana Article Talk Language Watch View source For other uses, see Banana (disambiguation). A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry[1] – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. It grows upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or hybrids of them. Banana Fruits of four different cultivars. Left to right: plantain, red banana, apple banana, and Cavendish banana Source plant(s) Musa Part(s) of plant Fruit Uses Food Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia; they were probably domest

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