Banana



Her name is Musa acuminata. She is yellow. She is a fruit. Humans and other apes and monkeys like to eat them a lot.

The banana is mentioned for the first time in history in Buddhist texts in 600 BC



A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly a herb) of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantains. The term banana is also applied to the elongated fruit (technically a false berry), which grows (in edible species and varieties) in hanging clusters, several to many fruits to a tier (called a hand), many tiers to a bunch. The total of hanging clusters is called a 'stem' in the commercial world. The banana was originally cultivated by pre-historic peoples in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.




 * Pictures of the banana tree (Musa acuminata)


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