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Red banana (Musa acuminata acuminata)

Description

Musa acuminata is a species of banana native to Southeast Asia. Many of the modern edible dessert bananas are from this species, although some are hybrids with Musa balbisiana. First cultivated by humans around 10 kya 8000 BCE it is one of the early examples of domesticated plants

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Zingiberales

            • Family: Musaceae

              • Genus: Musa