2006-08-18 11:47:56 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
a plant's evolution depends on its surroundings, many things can contribute to it being bent like it may help the branch that is carrying them stay balanced due to the structure of the fruit or because if they were straight then think about it they would just fan out from the branch leaving more open spaces for the moisture from the forest to get through damaging the branch and fruit so they curve inward to protect the branch and let water drip off. it could be a number of things, we just need to have a better understanding of the banana tree, the country of its origin and the environment that it has over there to fully understand its purpose in evolution
2006-08-18 12:03:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Save the Aussie Banana
Bananas start life very, very straight but as the bunch emerges from the top of the plant and the bracts roll back (bracts are the leathery purple things that separate the hands of bananas) and fall off, the bananas begin to spread out and turn upward.
They do this because bananas are negatively geo-tropic. This means that they grow away from the pull of gravity, as opposed to turning upward toward the sun. Because the Cavendish bunch is quite large and hangs almost straight down, the bananas generally have an even bend in them all the way round the bunch.
However Ladyfinger bunches sit almost at right angles to the plant and the bananas on the top side of the bunch grow straight upward while the bananas on the bottom side twist right around. Though there is no difference in the fruit the twisted bananas from the bottom side of the bunch generally don't make it to market, which is one reason that Ladyfinger bananas are more expensive because not all the bunch can be marketed.
2006-08-18 19:12:53 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny Midknight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the way they grow. It's so you can use the phrase 'bent as a banana.'
It may also be because it is difficult to come downstairs in your pajamas without being a little bent, if you are a banana.
2006-08-18 18:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the EU bigwigs had their way, they wouldn't be bent at all...
"a bunch of regulations promulgated by the EU bureaucracy that, among other things, specified that imported bananas had to be at least 5.5 inches long and 1.1 inches wide, and could not be abnormally bent."
2006-08-18 19:02:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science.
2006-08-18 21:30:28 · answer #5 · answered by mairimac158 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you imagine bananas shaped like watermelons. Darn.
2006-08-18 18:54:11 · answer #6 · answered by JOHNNY D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't like female bananas?
2006-08-18 18:53:30 · answer #7 · answered by Whitelord 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They're heading towards the sun but the tree branch wants to keep them.
2006-08-18 18:52:03 · answer #8 · answered by Irina C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If they were straight all the sex shops would go out of business
2006-08-18 18:57:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they grow that way lol. like grapes in a bunch, or cucumbers on a vine. thats all I know.
2006-08-18 19:30:07 · answer #10 · answered by Ginnykitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋