Banana Plant Classification
Bananas ( Musa spp . ) and plantains develop from the same types of plants , differing only in the amount of sweet sugar or blander starch in the fruits produced . Although often cry " banana tree , " the industrial plant are actually tropic herbs that grow from fleshy underground roots called rootstock or corms . Today there are hundreds of unlike banana / plantains in beingness because of human beings ’s selection and breeding to produce plants with varying fruit size , colors and flavors as well as better resistance to plant disease ....