Musa (muza)

[NL. (Plumier, 1703), prob. muscadel plants, type sheathing petioles, rising 5 to 30 feet high from solid watery bulbs, with large oblong leaves from 3 to 20 feet long, and yellowish flowers in the axils of large ornamental bracts (often purplish), the whole forming a long nodding spike. M. sapientum the banana. paradisiac a haps not distinct from the former) is the plantain. M. tex til is is the Manila hemp. The finest ornamental species is M. Ensete, the Aby in i an banana. See cuts under banana and plantain.