Plantain
কাঁচ কলা
Musa × paradisiaca L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.9 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Musaceae
Also called French plantain
Formerly Karkandela × malabarica, Musa × acutibracteata, Musa × aphurica, Musa × bacoba, and 24 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Herbaceous treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- MalesiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.1 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Portuguese
- banana
- Chinese
- 香蕉, 大蕉, 大蕉皮
- French
- banane plantain
- Akan
- Brɔdeɛ
- Asturian
- bananera
- Hungarian
- Banán
- Dutch
- bakbanaan
- Slovenian
- močnati bananovec
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 香蕉
- Indonesian
- pisang nangka
- Bangla
- কাঁচ কলা
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- 3D model: Musa × paradisiaca (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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