蝎尾蕉原产热带美洲和太平洋诸岛,主要分布在墨西哥南部、哥伦比亚、巴西、秘鲁、哥斯达里加及西印度群岛、太平洋诸岛等的雨林中。为旅人蕉科多年生草本植物,全属约40种;植株高1—3米,有些种类可高达4米以上;叶形似美人蕉,革质,大形;叶具柄,有长柄、短柄或几乎无柄;由叶鞘包成的假茎,丛生;花序有直立与下垂两类,直立者有大苞与小苞之分,多有鲜艳而美丽的色彩;苞内两性花,花被短筒状;雄蕊5枚,假雄蕊1枚;子房下位, Scorpioides native to tropical Pacific Islands and the Americas, mainly in southern Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica and the West Indies, the Pacific Islands and other rainforests. As a perennial herbaceous plantain family, all about 40 species; plants 1-3 meters high, some species can be as high as 4 meters above; leaf shape like canna, leathery, large; leaf handle, with long handle, short handle or Almost sessile; pseudostems composed of leaf sheaths, tufted; inflorescence erect and sag two categories, upright with bracts and small bracts of the points, and more bright and beautiful colors; bud bisexual flowers, perianth short tube Like; stamens 5, a stamen 1; ovary inferior,