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 ...

From dwarf varieties at 3 feet tall to tree size at ... but you can grow Musa basjoo, a Japanese species, outdoors in zones 7 and slightly higher. Container-grown banana plants may need to be ...