Is it true that bananas do not grow on trees?

Answer 1

Most people assume that bananas grow on trees, but this is not true. Bananas actually grow on plants that are giant herbs. These herbs are related to the lily and orchid family. Banana plants are perennial plants that produce fruit for many years. The plants are among the world's largest plants without woody stems. The plant’s gigantic leaves can reach up to 30 feet in length and the stems can weigh up to 100 pounds.

Answer 2

The edible farmed banana has no seeds. So how do we get new bananas? They take cuttings from an existing banana plant.

New banana "trees" are "born" in a new location when the shoots of cuttings are planted in the ground, and take root successfully.

The cycle starts with an underground stem (or vigorous root), often metres across, that can have several banana "trees" growing from it. Each of these so-called "trees" started from an underground "bud".

A "bud" will push up a shoot, which breaks through the soil. The shoot is made of leaves, wrapped tightly around each other, so that it looks like a green tree trunk - even though there is no wood present. The oldest leaves are on the outside, with the newest leaves pushing upward through the middle.

When the time is right, the underground stem switches from making leaves, to making an "inflorescence", which makes flowers, and subsequently, fruit. The inflorescence has a broad leaf-like structure that wraps around a hand of flowers, which ultimately turn into a hand of bananas. The final "tree" can be up to 6 metres tall, with bunches of 50-150 individual fruits or "fingers" of bananas, broken up into hands of 10-20 bananas each.

Once that particular underground bud has grown an inflorescence, it cannot reset itself to growing leaves, and ultimately, another "trunk". It has done its dash. So that bud and trunk will die and wither away. But in the next summer, other buds appear on the underground stem, and so the cycle continues.

So bananas are definitely a fruit, even though the fruit is sterile and has no seeds.

And the banana hand does not grow on a tree. It grows on a plant. But it's not a tree, because it's made from leaves, not true woody tissue.

Answer 3

Yes - it is true. The "trunk" of banana plant is not a tree by definition. I used to live in the tropics and have seen a banana trunk cut down - and the cross section looks pretty much like layers of hard tubulous plants. The trunk is basically big leaves wrapped up together.
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Answer 4

Bananas do grow on trees.

Answer 5

Q. Do bananas grow on trees?
A. No, they're not grown on trees. Bananas are grown on a plant made up of soft overlapping leaves, which can grow up to 30 feet (914 centimeters), making it the largest on earth without a woody stem.

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Answer 6

So your bananas are too small huh? you want to make confident the banana is getting adequate water and word how previous the tree is. A youthful tree will take a even as to produce the vast 8" bananas you so long to slurp down.

Answer 7

They also produce only one bunch of bannanas per tree. After you reap your banana then you cut down the tree, because it will never produce again. But, next to that you will see new shoots of plants growing. It's amazing eh?

Answer 8

bananas grow on plants not trees

Answer 9

False they do grow on trees.
They grow about 2-3 feet before there cut and replanted so when the full grown the bananas have no seeds.

Answer 10

I love the answers that say "duh, bananas grow on trees" .. People can be so rude, especially when they are WRONG. Bananas grow on plants. I own many banana plants on my estate and they are very different from the trees!