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Musa barioensis is a wild banana species from Sarawak in Borneo, grown mainly by enthusiasts and botanic gardens rather than for fruit. Give it warm, humid, frost-free conditions and rich, well-drained soil.
Musa barioensis is a species of wild banana (genus Musa), native to Sarawak, Malaysia. It is placed in section Callimusa (now including the former section Australimusa), having a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 20.
Edible banana · Musa ×alinsanaya · Bulada Banana · Musa arunachalensis · Musa aurantiaca · Musa azizii · Banana · Native banana · Japanese Banana · Bau Banana · Pisang Tajak · Musa boman
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Musa barioensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
