Musa is one of two or three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains. Around 70 species of Musa are known, with a broad variety of uses. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbs. Musa species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the giant leopard moth and other Hypercompe species, including H. albescens (only recorded on Musa), H. eridanus, and H. icasia. Learn more about Plantain and foxglove
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Common Name | Scientific Name | Conservation Status |
Banana (427 videos) | Musa balbisiana | Not Available |
Blue Penstemon (1 videos) | Penstemon cyaneus | Not Available |
Broadleaf Plantain (1 videos) | Plantago major | Not Available |
Purple Foxglove (13 videos) | Digitalis purpurea | Not Available |