Plants not stoloniferous, sap pale yellow-orange. Pseudostem yellow-green, with black-purple spots when old, cylindric, to 5 m (measured to crown of leaves at maturity), base swollen and jarlike. Petiole short; leaf blade oblong, 1.4--1.8 m × 50--60 cm, glabrous, base cuneate, apex caudate. Inflorescence cylindric, to 2.5 m. Bracts numerous, imbricate, persistent. Flowers 10--20 per bract. Compound tepal ca. 2.5 cm, apex 3-cleft; free tepal obcordate, shorter then compound tepal, apex with a large mucro. Berries purplish black, glaucous, obovoid-oblong, ca. 9 × 3.5 cm, base acuminate, apex rounded and with persistent perianth. Seeds black, globose, ca. 1.2 cm in diam., smooth. Fl. and fr. all year. 2 n = 18.
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A wild banana. It is a large herb. It grows 5-7 m high. The base of the stem is thickened like a bottle. The leaves have long stalks. The leaves are oblong with a rounded base. They are 2.5-3 m long and 60-70 cm wide. They are light green. The flowering shoot is at the top and hangs down. It can be 2 m long. The fruit is an oblong berry. It is 8-12 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. They are yellowish with black seed. There are 15-25 seeds. They are large, black and shiny. They are 1 cm across.
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