Bananas are among the most widely cultivated fruits in the world, valued for their high nutritional content, global economic significance, and adaptability to tropical and subtropical climates.

They grow similar to grasses and corn and are therefore monocotyledons and belong to the genus Musa.Banana plants grow from corms or rhizomes that form into large, fleshy trunk-like pseudostems that ...

BANANA belongs to the genus Musa of the monocot family Musaceae. The fruit is indigenous to the warm, moist regions of tropical Asia -- Bangladesh, India, Burma, Thailand and Indo-China. Composition ...

My extensive houseplant collection has been growing steadily over the past few years. And while I've mastered the care ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of the most destructive diseases for bananas. Professor of Phytopathology ...

A beautiful and striking plant is the Thai black banana (Musa balbisiana ‘Thai Black’). This ornamental, fruiting tropical has a black pseudostem — a false stem made of tightly wrapped, overlapping ...

The Banana Shrub (Michelia figo) is a plant that seems to be becoming more rare around local landscapes. This is a shrub, not the plant that produces bananas. In the spring it has creamy ...

I think that my interest in gardening was heavily influenced by my maternal grandmother, who in 1926, built a Craftsman bungalow in Pensacola with her husband. She early on installed several camellias ...