Legend has it that he planted banana trees (or any genus of trees under Musaceae) in the courtyard of the temple he lived, and used the leaves as paper to practice his art.
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Individuals were found at night within a few metres of the ground, sleeping in a head-upward position on the large leaves of ferns, arums or bananas.
It is one of the two genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important foodcrop in Ethiopia.
Returning to England he worked on the taxonomy of Musaceae at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew during the 1940s.
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Ernest Entwistle Cheesman (21 September 1898 Wood Green - February 1983 Weybridge), was an English botanist noted for his work on the family Musaceae.
Markku Häkkinen (born 1946), Finnish botanist; authority on the Musaceae family
Musa insularimontana is a species of plant in the banana family native to Taiwan (coastal Lan Yü), where it is known by the name lan yu ba jiao.
Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family (Costaceae), the Gentian Family (Gentianaceae), the Bloodwort Family (Haemodoraceae), the Banana Family (Musaceae), the Olacaceae, the Triuridaceae, and the Ginger Family (Zingiberaceae).