Banana Plant PDF
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This document provides information about the banana plant. Details its different parts, like leaves, roots, flowers, and types of suckers. It's good for learning about plant biology.
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Banana (Musa spp.) Family : Musaceae Habit ◘ Perennial ◘ Monocot ◘ Herbaceous succulent plant Corm Leaves ◘ Alternate or spiral leaf arrangement ◘ Oval or oblong in shape ◘ The first rudimentary leaves produced by a growing sucker are called scale leaves ◘ Mature leaves are called fol...
Banana (Musa spp.) Family : Musaceae Habit ◘ Perennial ◘ Monocot ◘ Herbaceous succulent plant Corm Leaves ◘ Alternate or spiral leaf arrangement ◘ Oval or oblong in shape ◘ The first rudimentary leaves produced by a growing sucker are called scale leaves ◘ Mature leaves are called foliage leaves ◘ Recently emerged leaf still rolled as a cylinder called cigar leafs ◘The extension at the tip of the leaf is called the precursory appendage Long petiole Mid rib Precursory appendage Cigar leaf Leaf blade Leaf sheath Leaf sheaths Pseudostem A cross section of a pseudostem Wavy or entire margins Roots ⬧ Coming from rhizome and referred as corm ⬧ The primary roots originate from the surface of the central cylinder ⬧ Root system do not go much deeper Pseudostem ⬧ This 'false stem‘ looks like a trunk ⬧ Formed by the tightly packed overlapping leaf sheaths ⬧ When banana stem reach maximum height the aerial true stem (floral stem) emerges at the top of the plant from rhizome Aerial true stem Sucker ⬧ Sucker is a lateral shoot ⬧ develops from the rhizome and emerges close to the parent plant ⬧A full grown sucker bearing foliage leaves is called a maiden sucker ⬧ Two types of suckers: ⬧ sword suckers: narrow leaves and a large rhizome ⬧ water suckers: broad leaves and a small rhizome Sucker Flower ◘ Unisexual ◘ Monoecious ◘ flowers arrange in racemes ◘ Subtended by coloured bracts or spathes Spathe / bract Male flowers – within the upper bracts Female flowers – within the lower bracts ◘ 6 tepals ◘ Arranged in 2 whorls ◘ 1 of inner tepal is free and boat shaped ◘ Other 5 are united to form a tube like body Androecium ◘ 6 stamens ◘ Only 5 are fertile Gynoecium ◘ Inferior ovary A cross section of an ovary Hands
