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The  banana is an edible  fruit – botanically a  berry[1] [2]  – produced by several kinds of large  herbaceous  flowering plants in the  genusMusa. [3]  In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called  plantains, in contrast to  dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in  starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible  parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species –  Musa acuminata and  Musa balbisiana<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">. The  scientific names<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> of most cultivated bananas are  Musa acuminata<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">,  Musa balbisiana<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">, and  Musa<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> ×  paradisiaca<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> for the hybrid  Musa acuminata<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> ×  ''M. balbisiana''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">, depending on their  genomic<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> constitution. The old scientific name  Musa sapientum<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> is no longer used.