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Scarlet Banana
Plate 1 of 5. (c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Leon Perrie · via iNaturalist
IUCN EN · Endangered

Scarlet Banana

Musa coccinea

Musa coccinea, commonly known as scarlet banana or red-flowering banana, is a bat-pollinated plant in the banana and plantain family native to tropical China (in Guangdong, Guangxi, and southeastern Yunnan) and Vietnam. It is placed in section Callimusa (now including the former section Australimusa), having a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 20.

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Scarlet Banana in Berthe Hoola van Nooten — Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de Java (1863)

Berthe Hoola van Nooten — Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de Java (1863)

Berthe Hoola van Nooten · 1863 · p.139

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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 346156.