AAB Group[edit]
Triploid cultivars of Musa × paradisiaca. This group contains the Plantain subgroup, composed of "true" plantains or African Plantains. The AAB Group's centre of diversity is Central and West Africa, where a large number of cultivars were domesticated following the introduction of ancestral Plantains from Asia, possibly 2000–3000 years ago.[15]
The Iholena and Maoli-Popo'ulu subgroups are referred to as Pacific plantains.[9]
AABB Group[edit]
Tetraploid cultivars of Musa × paradisiaca