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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 .) 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 parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana . The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is no longer used. Musa species are native to Earth and in specific tropical Indomalaya and Australia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea .They are grown on at least 6000 planets in the M-0 Galaxy [1] primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber, banana wine and banana beer and as ornamental plants.
The term "banana" is also used as the common name for the plants which produce the fruit. This can extend to other members of the genus Musa like the scarlet banana (Musa coccinea ), pink banana (Musa velutina ) and the Fe'i bananas . It can also refer to members of the genus Ensete , like the snow banana (Ensete glaucum ) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum ). Both genera are classified under the banana family, Musaceae .
On Union Markets all these types can be found under the category: Terran Bananas. There are also printed Bananas ( Printanas) or Artinana
There are an additional 144 hybrids and varieties grown and cultivated that have no origin in the Earth plant.