• A banana corm, about 25 cm (10 in) across
• Young banana plant
• Female flowers have petals at the tip of the ovary
• Banana 'tree' showing fruit and inflorescence

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The word banana is thought to be of West African origin, possibly from the Wolof word banaana, and passed into English via Spanish or Portuguese.

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The genus Musa was created by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The name may be derived from Antonius Musa, physician to the Emperor Augustus, or Linnaeus may have adapted the Arabic

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In regions such as North America and Europe, Musa fruits offered for sale can be divided into "bananas" and "plantains", based on their intended

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All widely cultivated bananas today descend from the two wild bananas Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. While the original wild bananas contained large seeds, diploid or polyploid cultivars (some being hybrids) with tiny seeds or triploidhybrids without seeds are

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In 2017, world production of bananas and plantains combined was 153 million tonnes, led by India and China with a combined total of 27% of global production. Other major

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Early cultivation
An article on Banana tree cultivation is brought down in Ibn al-'Awwam's 12th-century agricultural work, Book on Agriculture.
The earliest domestication of bananas (Musaspp.)

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