Banana species and their Botanical names
Botanical description of banana
The banana plant is a gigantic herb that springs from an underground stem, to form a false trunk 3–6 metres (10–20 feet) high.
This trunk is composed of the basal portions of leaf sheaths and is crowned with a rosette of 10 to 20 oblong to elliptic leaves that sometimes attain a length of 3–3.5 metres (10–11.5 feet) and a breadth of 65 cm (26 inches). A large flower spike, carrying numerous yellowish flowers protected by large purple-red bracts, emerges at the top of the false trunk and bends downward to become bunches of 50 to 150 individual fingers.
The individual bananas are grouped in clusters, or hands, of 10 to 20. After a plant has fruited, it is cut down to the ground, because each trunk produces only one bunch of fruit.
Now that we've discussed the botany of banana, here is a simple question for you; what is the botanical name of banana?
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