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,
Banana the common name for the plants that produce the fruit. This can extend to other members of the genus "Musa", such as the scarlet banana ("Musa coccinea"), the pink banana ("Musa velutina"), and the Fe'i bananas. It can also refer to members of the genus "Ensete", such as the snow banana ("Ensete glaucum") and the economically important false banana ("Ensete ventricosum"). Both genera are in the banana family, Musaceae. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure usually called a "corm". Plants are normally tall and fairly