'''Banana''' (look like a penis...) is the [[common name]] used for herbaceous, [[Cultigen|cultigenic]] plants in the [[genus]] ''[[Musa (Musaceae)|Musa]]'', which, because of their size and structure, are often mistaken for [[tree]]s. Bananas are green when they are picked, yellow when they are ripe, and brown or black when they rot. Bananas are cultivated for their fruit which bear the same name, and to a lesser extent for the production of fibre and as ornamental plants. Bananas are of the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Musaceae]]. Globally, bananas rank fourth after [[rice]], [[wheat]] and [[maize]] in human consumption; they are grown in 130 countries worldwide, more than any other fruit crop. Bananas are native to [[Tropics|tropical]] southeastern [[Asia]] but are widely cultivated in tropical regions. In popular culture and commerce, "banana" usually refers to the soft, sweet "dessert" bananas that are usually eaten raw. The bananas from a group of cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit, generally used in cooking rather than eaten raw, are typically known as [[plantain]]s. Bananas may also be dried and ground into banana flour.
The main or upright growth is called a ''pseudostem'', which when mature, will obtain a height of 2–8 m (varies between different [[cultivar]]s), with [[leaf|leaves]] of up to 3.5 m in length. Each pseudostem produces a single bunch of bananas, before dying and being replaced by a new pseudostem. The base of the plant is a [[rhizome]] (known as a [[corm]]). Corms are perennial, with a productive lifespan of 15 years or more.
