Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

Plantain

Musa × paradisiaca

Spanish: Plátano

Plantain (Musa × paradisiaca)
Photographed by symbiiotica on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

Musa × paradisiaca is the accepted name for the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are triploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alone. Linnaeus originally used the name M. paradisiaca only for plantains or cooking bananas, but the modern usage includes hybrid cultivars used both for cooking and as dessert bananas. Linnaeus's name for dessert bananas, Musa sapientum, is thus a synonym of Musa × paradisiaca. Most often recorded in Mar, Sep, Dec.

TaxonomyLiliopsida › Zingiberales › Musaceae
Local records3 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records12,552 on iNaturalist
Recorded here2018 – 2024
Months recorded near La Saladita
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Cite as: “Plantain (Musa × paradisiaca) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/musa-paradisiaca/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.