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  • COMMON NAME: Banana
  • ARABIC: الموز
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Musa paradisiaca L
  • SYNONYMS: Musa L
  • FAMILY: MUSACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fruits (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE.
Moderately salt tolerant. Edible bananas.

Perennial, rhizomatus food plant, treelike herb, up to 9 meters high, with spirally arranged leathery green leaves with obvious midrib, forming a slender
trunk by their sheathing bases. Flowers yellow; bracts violet, mostly once-blooming plants. Sepals and petals 3. Stamens 6. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Fruit
is the well known banana. The unripe fruit is rich in starch, which on ripening turns into sugar.

Flowering in spring.
Cultivated in warm and humid regions, with many hybrid cultivars, that tolerate salinity and adverse soil conditions. Banana plant uncommon in the UAE: found in Dubai, R’as al-Khaimah, Dibba and Fujiairah.