Plantain Tree Vs Banana Tree. A plantain is actually a type of banana but with a different flavor and culinary use. Both are members of the Musa genus and are technically large herbs and their fruit classified as berries.
If youre planting the banana tree outdoors choosing the right planting site is key to making care easy. Just doing a little walk around of the banana and plantain trees at the family farm in Costa Rica. A plantain is actually a type of banana but with a different flavor and culinary use.
Edible Bananas are botanically a berry belonging to the Musa genus of flowering plants.
They tend to be larger in size than bananas and have a thicker skin. Bananas are sweet and are mostly eaten raw although they can be used in cakes and desserts. Cultivated dessert bananas are generally seedless sweet hybrids of Musa acuminata while plantains or cooking bananas are usually either from Musa balbisiana or. Many young plants can emerge from a mature banana rhizome allowing the plant to continue indefinitely.
