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Banana (Musa acuminata)

Flowering Plants

Banana is the common name for a large treelike herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Musa and for its elongated, edible fruit, which is botanically a berry. Almost all modern seedless cultivated bananas descend from the wild species Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana or their hybrids, and cooking varieties are distinguished from dessert bananas as plantains in some countries; the fruit is variable in size, color and firmness but is usually elongated and curved, with starch-rich flesh under a peel that changes color as it ripens.

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Domesticated 3

Living or Extinct

Yes 4

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

GNR Unranked 5

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 6

Scientific Name

Musa acuminata 4

Conservation Status

Least Concern 4

Connections

Child Taxon Of

Source Musa acuminata (Wikidata)

In Biome

Freshwater Marsh

Source Plants For A Future: Musa acuminata

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Sources

1. Musa acuminata (Wikipedia)

Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to

Quote, Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to

First cultivated by humans around 8000 BCE, it is one of the early examples of domesticated plants.

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2. GBIF Species API

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3. Banana (Musa acuminata) (Wikipedia)

First cultivated by humans around 8000 BCE, it is one of the early examples of domesticated plantsView the Source

4. Musa acuminata (Wikidata)

Wikidata

Wikidata Q132970 (P225 taxon name)
Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q132970
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Child Taxon Of: Plantae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain

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5. NatureServe Explorer: Musa acuminata

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "GNR"

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6. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Zingiberales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12393

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12393

"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Zingiberales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]

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Plant (Wikipedia)

Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

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Plants For A Future: Musa acuminata

Plants For A FutureIn Biome: Freshwater Marsh, Habitats

Quote, In Biome: Freshwater Marsh, Habitats

Shaded and moist ravines, marshlands, semi-marshlands and slopes from near sea level to 1200 metres

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