Talk:Musa (genus)

message: Musa was moved by cut and paste to Musa (Musaceae) by anonymous user 195.7.55.146 in November 2004 and replaced with a redirect to Musa (disambiguation). This is an unsatisfactory state of affairs because the history is missing from the article. There are two possible solutions to this, given below. I'd be happy with either solution.
# Keep the article on the genus at Musa (Musaceae) and merge the histories; move Musa (disambiguation) to Musa.
# Move the article on the genus back to Musa and merge the histories; leave Musa (disambiguation) as it is.
Gdr 14:23, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
: Done what I can for now.  There is some history left at Musa (Musaceae)/history that will be merged in when technically possible. violet/riga (t) 23:21, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you. Gdr 19:44, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)
OK, all fixed up now. Noel (talk) 20:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please repair cut-and-paste move 

message: where should Musa sumatrana go in the lists of species?Erudy 17:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is actually Musa acuminata ssp. zebrina. M. sumatrana is an obsolete name used in horticulture. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 03:57, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Appropriate place for species

message: Some confusion over taxonomic names exists in various sources, and I was wondering if it would be possible to provide some hints as to the true identities of various species of Musa cited as being utilised as foodplants by assorted Brassolid butterflies (most notably Caligo species but also species in genera such as Opsiphanes). This site lists Musa sapientum (elsewhere listed in the same database as Musa paradisiaca var sapientum) as a foodplant of Caligo eurilochus for example, but none of the two names for that foodplant appear in the list of valid Musa species on the main page. By way of a double check I've looked at the Natural History Museum database of Lepidoptera larval foodplants (main index page for this is here) and that database mentions "Musa x paradisiaca", which suggests a cultivar of some sort (the complete page for larval foodplants of members of the genus Caligo I generated and examined - this link whould take the curious to the requisite page). Looking at the comment above on edible bananas, it would seem that 'paradisiaca' is indeed a cultivar, but of course more work needs to be done on this (it's notable that several of the Caligo species on the page from the NHM database also have Musa acuminata listed as a larval foodplant). Presumably the NHM source is a reliable one (they are just up the road from Kew Gardens, one of the world's leading botanical research facilities, and presumably exchange information on a regular basis) so I would venture to suggest that information about the use of Musa by Brassolids be updated with information obtained therefrom, with taxonomic named corrected where required in accordance with the latest phylogeny. Any takers? Calilasseia 23:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Musa'' As Lepidoptera Larval Foodplants

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Japanese banana cwp.jpg

message: The picture of M. troglodytarum is actually of a 'Cuban Red' banana.  We took the image and a banana expert recently correct us.
Also the main image on this page looks like a Strelitzia, right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.6.39 (talk) 23:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The pic in taxbox should be replaced, because the plant now pictured is a hybrid between a Musa species and a species from another genus.  Hardyplants (talk) 23:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Corrections to Page

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replies: text: I have now removed this tag. This article and Banana have been sorted a bit, so that the Food and drink stuff is really at the latter. This is more botanical, with a brief bit on cultivated bananas. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:09, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:FOOD|WikiProject Food and drink]] Tagging

message: The top picture is of Strelitzia, which is not from the botanical Family Musa - it is from Family Strelitziaceae. As such it is not representative of any of the Family Musa plants. 
The appropriate picture would be from Genus Musa - Musa paradisiaca was the first Linnean name for a banana and is therefore technically the "type species" for the genus Musa and would be an appropriate example.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.236.80.41 (talk) 18:33, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  top picture is from the wrong family 

message: Neither the saba or burro are mentioned in this article. According to [], the burro is the orinoco, which is not mentioned, either.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wakablogger2 (talk • contribs) 21:39, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saba and burro 

message: The red banana should be included in this article. Wakablogger2 (talk) 01:11, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red bananas 

message: The article launches immediately into a discussion of the properties of the plant with no early mention of the natural distribution of the wild species. 209.93.146.80 (talk) 09:12, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distribution