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edible banana (Musa acuminata)
Photo: (c) Ong Jyh Seng, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (CC BY-SA), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

edible banana

Musa acuminata · Musaceae · also called Cavendish banana · Wikipedia

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Form
perennial
Rated in
Global; New Zealand
Uses
fruit
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global; New Zealand

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in FL.
Introduced / established
2 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

1

exact source area

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

1 introduced source area · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Florida (FL)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Recommends (1)

Listed without a rating (25)
Corroboration (25 rows from 1 source)

  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    25 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022.

      • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 648.3142857”

        FLAMITS record 16381; Combustibility measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 14.97”

        FLAMITS record 16382; Sustainability measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 19.57142857”

        FLAMITS record 16383; Consumability measurement.

    • Primary study Singh2020: Singh, R.K., Pandey, D., Patil, T., & Sawarkar, A. N. (2020). Pyrolysis of banana leaves biomass: Physico-chemical characterization, thermal decomposition behavior, kinetic and thermodynamic analyses. Bioresource Technology, 310, 123464.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Singh2020-1; sampling ND.

      • Shared measurement context: Combustibility measurement.

        • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4251.45”

          FLAMITS record 18336.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 150”

          FLAMITS record 18337.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 162”

          FLAMITS record 18339.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 170”

          FLAMITS record 18341.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 560”

          FLAMITS record 18343.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 539”

          FLAMITS record 18345.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 554”

          FLAMITS record 18347.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 850”

          FLAMITS record 18349.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 850”

          FLAMITS record 18351.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 850”

          FLAMITS record 18353.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 297”

          FLAMITS record 18355.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 304”

          FLAMITS record 18356.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 316”

          FLAMITS record 18357.

      • Shared measurement context: consumability measurement.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 4.1”

          FLAMITS record 18338.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 4.7”

          FLAMITS record 18340.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 3.6”

          FLAMITS record 18342.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 64.4”

          FLAMITS record 18344.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 66.6”

          FLAMITS record 18346.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 66.62”

          FLAMITS record 18348.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 6.15”

          FLAMITS record 18350.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 5.6”

          FLAMITS record 18352.

        • “burnt biomass (%): 4.39”

          FLAMITS record 18354.

Same genus in the directory
  • banana (Musa spp. — awaiting evidence)

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Musa acuminata (Cavendish banana). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/musa-acuminata/. Last verified 2026-08-23.