Banana trees are made up of giant leaves, not a trunk. So they’re more like a giant onion instead of a tree.
I’ve gone down the rabbit hole. Depending on culinary, scientific, or horticulture, nobody agrees on what things are classified as.
And there are also small cute pink self-peeling bananas (Musa velutina)
No such thing as a tree really (genetically speaking), trees are just a bunch of plants that converged on a similar niche but they don’t all share a common ancestor (some trees are more closely related to brocoli than other trees), lots of different things evolved into what we now call trees seperately from eachother so a bannana tree is as much a tree as any other tree.
That doesn’t mean there’s no such thing as trees though. It means a tree is a growth form, a life strategy, just like a succulent, a geofyte or an epifyte. It’s a group of plants that have a lot in common despite not being related, and they are well defined. And one of the important defining characteristics of a tree is true wood production, which is missing in bananas. The life form of a banana is much more similar to ginger than to any tree.
They are fast-growing plants, with a growth rate of up to 1.6 metres (5.2 ft) per day.[5]
holy shit
I feel like they’d feel pretty warm to the touch if they are growing that fast.
I kinda feel like heat would be wasted energy that could be used to ｇｒｏｗ
I feel like bananas would be cold as hell if they were growing that fast.
Absorbing heat from hapless critters that happen to brush a banana leaf to g r o w
Fun fact! The farmers rely on this effect to supply supplemental meat in the growing season.
i chopped down a banana tree once, definitely not wood, was like cutting a large celery
Its not a tree.
What’s a tree?
See /c/trees
What is anything, really?
Since when is an onion a herb?
What they mean is herbaceous, aka leafy and not woody
