Wild bananas

Description

Musa jackeyi Johnstone River banana2 is a species of wild banana genus Musa. It is placed in section Callimusa now including the former section Australimusa It has only a small native range in north-east Queensland, Australia. It resembles the cultivated bananas called having an upright rather than a drooping fruit stalk, with the green terminal bud pointing upwards, and sap which is reddish in colour.