1. Genus species:Musa spp.
2. Family: Musaceae
3. English name: Cooking banana
4. Chuukese name:
5. Kosrean name: Apact Fusus
6. Pohnpeian name:Uht in lihli
7. Mwokilese name:Wis in lihli, Wis in Ruk
8. Yapese name:
9. Growth form: Tree
10. Growth location: terrestrial
11. Growth environment: cultivated garden
12. Growth zone: tropical
13. Average height: 3.0-9.5m
14. Stem: non-woody,smooth, made from tightly rolled spiral leaf bases
15. Leaf arrangement: whorled, simple
16. Stipule: none observed
17. Petioles:.3-.5m
18. Leaf blade: oblong, margin is entire, refuse tip, slightly shiny surface, parallel venation opposite of rachis, light green, 3.0m in length
19. Infloresence: complex spike
20. Floral bracts: ovate, reddish
21. Flower: many clusters arranged spirally, do not encircel peduncle, lower basal 5-15 basal nodes produce female flowers, clusters of sterile flowers follows the lower basal, the upper or distal basal nodes produce male flowers(S.L. Kochar, Tropical Crops,p195), the flower is zygomorphic
22. Calyx: five fused segments, one small free posterior sement
23. Corolla: undetermined
24. Stamens: five on the male flowers which produce unfunctionable pollen
25. Ovary: inferior
26. Pistil:
27. Fruit: berry, endocarp fleshy, simple fruit, green when not ripe, yellow when ripe
28. Seed: none observed, reminants of ovules appear as brown specks in the center of the fruit
29. Anything else: most important and most widely grown tropical plant, it is the oldest fruit known to mankind.
30. Cultural usage: leaf is used for uhmw, wrapping food and umbrella, it's trunk is used for various kinds of medicinal purposes.