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A large tropical plant; also its edible fruit, which occurs in hanging clusters, is usually yellow when ripe, and is about 6–8 in. (15–20 cm) long....


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Figure 1.Pseudostem of a commercial banana plant (Musa acuminata). (Photo courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr)
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Figure 2.A single fruiting stalk produces the banana fruit bunch. (Photo courtesy of Charles T. Bryson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, www.Bugwood.org)
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Figure 3.Black Sigatoka disease, caused by the fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis var. difformis, with leaf spotting and necrosis of a banana leaf. (Photo courtesy of Fred Brooks, University of Hawaii at Manoa, www.Bugwood.org)
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