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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

or Musa acuminata, is by far the most widespread and significant of the bananas that are raised commercially. A person can find many reasons for raising bananas including ornamental banana plants.