A banana is the common name for a type of fruit and also the name for the herbaceous plants that grow it. These plants belong to the genus Musa. It is thought that bananas were grown for food for the first time in Papua Banana flower Guinea. Today, they are cultivated in tropical regions around the world.
There are about 110 different species of banana. In popular culture and commerce, “banana” usually refers to the soft and sweet kind, also known as dessert bananas. Other kinds, or cultivars, of banana have a firmer, starchier fruit. Other than being used as food, beer can be made by fermenting the juice of certain cultivars in Africa, known as beer bananas. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. Banana plants are often mistaken for trees. This pseudostem can grow to be two to eight meters tall.