Callimusa
Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 fruit species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains (also known as cooking bananas), and fiber (abacá), used to make paper and cloth. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbaceous plants.
39 branches of this group, most-observed first
Scarlet Banana
speciesMusa coccinea
Musa campestris
speciesMusa campestris
Musa beccarii
speciesMusa beccarii
Musa monticola
speciesMusa monticola
Musa violascens
speciesMusa violascens
fe'i banana
speciesMusa troglodytarum
Manila hemp
speciesMusa textilis
Musa haekkinenii
speciesMusa haekkinenii
Angkadan banana
speciesMusa borneensis
Musa ingens
speciesMusa ingens
Musa splendida
speciesMusa splendida
Musa lolodensis
speciesMusa lolodensis
Musa gracilis
speciesMusa gracilis
Musa tuberculata
speciesMusa tuberculata
Musa arfakiana
speciesMusa arfakiana
Musa hirta
speciesMusa hirta
Musa paracoccinea
speciesMusa paracoccinea
Musa johnsii
speciesMusa johnsii
Musa lutea
speciesMusa lutea
Musa jackeyi
speciesMusa jackeyi
Musa salaccensis
speciesMusa salaccensis
Musa peekelii
speciesMusa peekelii
Musa lawitiensis
speciesMusa lawitiensis
Musa maclayi
speciesMusa maclayi
Musa bukensis
speciesMusa bukensis
Musa viridis
speciesMusa viridis
Musa muluensis
speciesMusa muluensis
Musa lokok
speciesMusa lokok
Musa juwiniana
speciesMusa juwiniana
Musa barioensis
speciesMusa barioensis
Musa bauensis
speciesMusa bauensis
Musa exotica
speciesMusa exotica
Musa boman
speciesMusa boman
Musa voonii
speciesMusa voonii
Musa × putei-gentu
hybridMusa × putei-gentu
Daintree's River Banana
speciesMusa fitzalanii
Musa sakaiana
speciesMusa sakaiana
Musa × alinsanaya
hybridMusa × alinsanaya
Musa azizii
speciesMusa azizii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1691004.