Bring a tropical flair to your home with these easy-growing plants Reviewed by Barbara Gillette The edible banana is one of more than 80 species of flowering plants in the Musa genus. Bananas are huge ...

Until the 1950s. the most popular commercial banana variety in the world was the Gros Michel, which was affectionately known as “Big Mike.” Due to Panama wilt, a fungus disease, it was virtually wiped ...