<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <P> Around 70, see text . </P> </Td> </Tr> <P> Around 70, see text . </P> <P> Musa is one of two or three genera in the family Musaceae; it includes bananas and plantains . Around 70 species of Musa are known, with a broad variety of uses . </P> <P> Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks . Thus, they are technically gigantic herbs . </P>

Plant genus that includes the bananas and plantains