Banana Flower (Bap Chuoi)
Musa paradisiaca
About Banana Flower (Bap Chuoi)
Banana Flower (Bap Chuoi) (Musa paradisiaca) is a herb used in the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Anemia, Diabetes, Digestive Issues, and Menstrual Issues. The flowers are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Musa × paradisiaca is the accepted name for the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are triploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alone. Linnaeus originally used the name M. paradisiaca only for plantains or cooking bananas, but the modern usage includes hybrid cultivars used both for cooking and as dessert bananas. Linnaeus's name for dessert bananas, Musa sapientum, is thus a synonym of Musa × paradisiaca.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist