No matter what you’ve been told, bananas don’t grow on trees. The lush, leafy plants that produce the popular tropical fruit are actually perennial herbs.
Wait, there’s more! Botanically speaking, a banana is in fact a berry: a fleshy fruit, without a stone or pit, produced from a single flower containing one ovary.
But back to the tree — or, more exactly, the world’s largest herbaceous flowering plant. How does it achieve its upright habit?
Layers of leaves emerge from the crown of a rhizome or corm beneath the ground and grow into an upright trunk-like
