- Genus species:Musa spp.
- Family: Musaceae
- English name: Cooking banana
- Chuukese name:
- Kosrean name: Apact Fusus
- Pohnpeian name:Uht in lihli
- Mwokilese name:Wis in lihli, Wis in Ruk
- Yapese name:
- Growth form: Tree
- Growth location: terrestrial
- Growth environment: cultivated garden
- Growth zone: tropical
- Average height: 3.0-9.5m
- Stem: non-woody,smooth, made from tightly rolled spiral leaf bases
- Leaf arrangement: whorled, simple
- Stipule: none observed
- Petioles:.3-.5m
- Leaf blade: oblong, margin is entire, refuse tip, slightly shiny surface, parallel
venation opposite of rachis, light green, 3.0m in length
- Infloresence: complex spike
- Floral bracts: ovate, reddish
- Flower: many clusters arranged spirally, do not encircel peduncle, lower basal 5-15
basal nodes produce female flowers, clusters of sterile flowers follows the lower basal,
the upper or distal basal nodes produce male flowers(S.L. Kochar, Tropical Crops,p195),
the flower is zygomorphic
- Calyx: five fused segments, one small free posterior sement
- Corolla: undetermined
- Stamens: five on the male flowers which produce unfunctionable pollen
- Ovary: inferior
- Pistil:
- Fruit: berry, endocarp fleshy, simple fruit, green when not ripe, yellow when ripe
- Seed: none observed, reminants of ovules appear as brown specks in the center of the
fruit
- Anything else: most important and most widely grown tropical plant, it is the oldest
fruit known to mankind.
- Cultural usage: leaf is used for uhmw, wrapping food and umbrella, it's trunk is used
for various kinds of medicinal purposes.