Banana 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, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild
Blood banana later on. Blood banana The blood banana ("Musa acuminata" var. "zebrina"), is a variety of the wild banana "Musa acuminata" native to Sumatra, Indonesia. The blood banana is an ornamental plant, named for the dark red patches on its leaves, though its small-seeded fruits are also edible. The blood banana is a variety of the wild banana species "Musa acuminata", one of the two ancestors of modern edible bananas. It was once classified as separate species under the now invalid names (synonyms) "Musa zebrina" and "Musa sumatrana". It was also sometimes incorrectly classified as a cultivar. The variety is not