Re: Scientific names
Pure species are like all living things classified by science such as Musa acuminata (if you wanted to be formal or if you are writting a scientific paper that whole name would be in italics, Musa acuminata). If the origin is not known and/or has a common name, you do like Musa 'African Red', this is not a species name, it is a variety name. The word species is not so well understood sometimes, it is only for the use of wild, natural, untouched-by-man-or-otherwise-untainted plants. Names like Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii' show it is a pure species, but a different form in some way, it is not a subspecies or official scientific variety, just a commercial name for normal red Ensete ventricosum that is heavily cultivated.
Below are examples of all the ways you can see banana names correctly written. However when quickly refering to a species when typing the italics are of course not nessacery and also adding the genetics on the end of edible cultivars is not nessacery unless doing official work.
Musa acuminata
Musa acuminata ssp. zebrina
Musa campestris var. sarawakensis
Musa maclayi ssp. maclayi var. maclayi
Musa 'Cavendish' (AAA)
Musa 'Lavendar Beauty'
Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'
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