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Musa velutina (Hairy Banana)
Musa velutina is a dwarf banana species that can be used as a houseplant provided it can get bright light or dappled sun. It grows to about 6ft tall and will produce white to yellow flowers with velvet reddish bracts followed by small reddish-pink, fuzzy fruit. The fruit are not typically known to be edible, are about three inches long, and tend to automatically peel open when ripe. This leads to one of its common names, "the self-peeling banana".
Kingdom: Plantae
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Cross referenced against the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Taxonomy Browser
and the Plants Database at http://plants.usda.gov/.
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Bibliography
---Brickell, Cristopher and Judith D. Zuk, 1997, The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, New York: DK Publishing, Inc., ISBN 0-7894-1943-2
---Bush-Brown, Louise and James, 1996, America's Garden Book, New York: Macmillan, ISBN 0-02-860995-6
---Jenkins, Dorothy H., 1975, The Encyclopedia of House Plants, New York: Bantam Books
---McDonald, Elvin, 1963, The World Book of House Plants, Popular Library
---Turner, R.G. Jr., 2001, Botanica, Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Random House Australia Pty Ltd, B&N ISBN 0760716420, ISBN 1566491754
 America's Garden Book |
 Botanica |
 American Horticulture Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants |