Musaceae
Banana
Musa balbisiana
- Family
- Musaceae
- Genus
- Musa
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Common names
By language (22)
- Arabic
- موز بالبيسي
- arz
- موز بالبيسى
- Assamese
- ভীমকল
- ban
- Biu batu
- Bangla
- বিচি কলা
- bik
- Bu'tuhan
- Cantonese
- 大果野蕉
- Chinese
- 拔蕉, 野蕉, 伦阿蕉, 千只眼, 山芭蕉, 山芭蕉子
- English
- Banana
- Indonesian
- Pisang batu
- Japanese
- リュウキュウイトバショウ, リュウキュウバショウ
- Korean
- 무사 발비시아나
- Malay
- Pisang batu, Pisang benggala, Pisang biji, Pisang klutuk
- Nepali
- वन केरा
- Persian
- موسا بالبیساینا
- Russian
- Банан Бальбиса
- Spanish
- Plátano macho, M. balbisiana, Platano macho
- Sundanese
- Cau manggala
- Swedish
- Balbisbanan
- Telugu
- ఎదురు అరటి
- Thai
- กล้วยตานี
- Vietnamese
- Chuối hột
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Photo: Grete Pasch, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.