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Plantain
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Gingers, heliconias & bananas

Plantain

Musa paradisiaca L.

Names

EnglishPlantain
DutchDuizendvingerige Banaan
SpanishPlátano
Chinese大蕉
Scientific nameMusa paradisiaca L.

About this species

Musa × paradisiaca is a species as well as a cultivar, originating as the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, cultivated and domesticated by humans very early. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are polyploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alone. Linnaeus originally used the name M. paradisiaca only for plantains or cooking bananas, but the modern usage includes hybrid cultivars used both for cooking and as dessert bananas. Linnaeus's name for dessert bananas, Musa sapientum, is thus a synonym of Musa × paradisiaca.

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Classification

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassLiliopsida
OrderZingiberales
FamilyMusaceae
GenusMusa

In Suriname

13Records in Suriname
1iNaturalist observations
1837First record
2023Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo4
  • Commewijne3

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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