Banana Bananas were hung from nooses around the campus of American University in May 2017 after the student body elected its first black woman student government president. The Unicode standard includes the emoji character . Banana A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus "Musa". In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind,
Lady Finger banana Lady Finger banana Lady Finger bananas (also known as Sugar bananas, Sucrier, Niños, Bocadillos, Fig bananas, or Date bananas) are diploid cultivars of "Musa acuminata". Their fruits are small, thin-skinned, and very sweet. The Lady Finger banana is a diploid (AA) cultivar of the seeded banana "Musa acuminata". They were once placed under the Sucrier group in the old system of classification. Its official designation is "Musa" (AA) 'Lady Finger'. Synonyms include: It is known in English as Lady finger banana, Sugar banana, Finger banana, Fig banana, Date banana, or Sucrier. In the US, this cultivar is also known as