The American banana (Musa americanum) is a species of banana that originally did not exist, but has since been created by SciiFii and introduced throughout the rainforests, wetlands, forests, and open woodlands across North America and South America to help boost biodiversity, and has also been sold as a common cultivated plant. The American banana plant is one of the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of the American banana plant grow from a structure usually called a "corm". Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy, and are often mistaken for trees, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a "false stem" or pseudostem. American bananas grow in almost all varieties of soils, allowing it to survive and flourish in cold and arid environments, unlike most banana species. American banana plants vary in height depending on the growing conditions, but most are around 5 meters (16 feet) tall, ranging from around 3 meters (10 feet) to 7 meters (23 feet) or more. Leaves are spirally arranged and may grow 2.7 meters (8.9 feet) long and 60 cm (2.0 feet) wide. The American banana's fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch
covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Unlike domestic bananas, the American bananas retain the seeds to help its spread by fruit-eating animals, but unlike the seeds of most other banana species, the seeds of the American banana is soft, shewy, and edible for human consumption, making it a suitable common food source for many people and other herbivorous and omnivorous sapient species. The conservation status of the wild American banana is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts, the American banana's wide range and its tolerance to many of the human activities.