A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry12 – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.3 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 upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) 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 for this hybrid, Musa sapientum, is no longer used.
Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in New Guinea.45 They are grown in 135 countries,6 primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber, banana wine, and banana beer, and are sometimes even grown as ornamental plants. The world's largest producers of bananas in 2017 were India and China, which together accounted for approximately 38% of total production.
Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in New Guinea.45 They are grown in 135 countries,6 primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber, banana wine, and banana beer, and are sometimes even grown as ornamental plants. The world's largest producers of bananas in 2017 were India and China, which together accounted for approximately 38% of total production.
by Bro with the words December 18, 2023
Get the Banana smoothie is not an apple piemug. A banana flake is a pitiful person that swears incessantly.
Derivation: Banana flakes are used as a safe and cost-effective treatment for diarrhea in critically ill tube-fed patients. When someone swears incessantly, he or she is known as having diarrhea of the mouth.
Derivation: Banana flakes are used as a safe and cost-effective treatment for diarrhea in critically ill tube-fed patients. When someone swears incessantly, he or she is known as having diarrhea of the mouth.
That pathetic banana flake sits on her porch all day long yelling obscenities at the kids playing in the street.
by InalienableRights December 8, 2011
Get the Banana Flakemug. by tzushi July 5, 2023
Get the banana glidermug. by GallusGallusDomesticus December 27, 2020
Get the (Banana##)mug. "Why tf are you looking up Banana"
by IMaTHICCYSUCCIT November 27, 2018
Get the Bananamug. 
by LessySara March 15, 2020
Get the Bananamug.