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Musa itinerans is a wild banana from Southeast Asia with pink fruits, which are an important staple food for wild Asian elephants. It was the 24,200th plant species saved at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank.

 


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The blood banana is a subspecies of the wild banana species Musa acuminata, one of the two ancestors of modern edible bananas. They were once classified as separate species under the now invalid names (synonyms) Musa zebrina and Musa sumatrana.

See also: American Larch, Red Pine, Buckeyes, Black Ash, Striped Maple

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