Bring a tropical flair to your home with these easy-growing plants Reviewed by Barbara Gillette The edible banana is one of more than 80 species of flowering plants in the Musa genus. Bananas are ...

We also grow several types of ornamental bananas that do not produce edible fruit. The dwarf banana (Musa ornata) produces upright spikes of small flowers with attractive pinkish purple bracts.

Banana plants (Musa spp.) are not only a staple food in many tropical regions but also a reservoir of valuable bioactive compounds. Extensive research has demonstrated that various parts of the ...

Here’s how to choose — and grow ... t produce edible fruit, but their leaves make good wrappers for steaming fish, chicken or maybe tamales. The hardiest, 6-plus-foot Musa basjoo, overwinters ...

Wild bananas, or Musa acuminata ... Then, you have to breed those plants with others to create a new, edible, sterile banana. Image The world’s banana plantations lack genetic diversity ...

The yellow banana we are all used to seeing in grocery stores comes from a subgroup of varieties known botanically as Cavendish types within the species Musa acuminata. These plants are native to ...

Horticulturists at a garden in Harrogate have celebrated the blooming for the first time ever of a 15ft (4.5m) banana plant. The Musa Basjoo banana plant has flowered at RHS Garden Harlow Carr.