Banana is the common name for a fruit and also the herbaceous plants of the genus Musa which produce the commonly eaten fruit. They are native to the tropical region of Southeast Asia and Australia. Today, they are cultivated throughout the tropics.
Banana plants are of the family Musaceae. They are cultivated primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent for the production of fibre and as ornamental plants. As the bananas are mainly tall, upright, and fairly sturdy, they are often mistaken for trees, when the truth is the main or upright stem is called a pseudostem, literally meaning "fake stem", which for some species can obtain a height of up to 2–8 m, with leaves of up to 3.5 m in length. Each pseudostem can produce a bunch of yellow, green, or even red bananas before dying and being replaced by another pseudostem.
The banana fruit grow in hanging clusters, with up to 20 fruit to a tier (called a hand), and 3-20 tiers to a bunch. The total of the hanging clusters is known as a bunch, or commercially as a "banana stem", and can weigh from 30–50 kg. The fruit averages 125 g, of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter content. Each individual fruit (known as a banana or 'finger') has a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with a fleshy edible inner portion. Both skin and inner part can be eaten raw or cooked. Western cultures generally eat the inside raw and throw away the skin while some asian cultures generally eat both the skin and inside cooked. Typically, the fruit has numerous strings (called 'phloem bundles') which run between the skin and inner part. Bananas are a valuable source of vitamin B6, vitamin C, and potassium.
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URGENT: Just in..... It has now been found out after bazillions of years that the banana has been around, that the banana is not a fruit at all; it is in fact a very ferocious animal that disguises itself as an edible fruit!!! There have been several millions of cases of the fruit/animal to, after a considerable amount of time left in the fruit basket on your kitchen table or whatever, the banana grows hair and then unremorsibly kills every person in the household it is left in... Some stupid scientist people believe that the greenish fur it grows is mould cause by bacterial changes but it is not. The banana is an animal that demands to be eaten! As a result of not being eaten the banana undiguises itself and kills whoever it finds, and people not eating this so called fruit because of "mould" is the reason why... Deaths include Choking and slipping on its peel, which in turn for the banana it grows back again, just like a starfish's leg, causing more resources for the banana to kill with.. The people who have survived this attack from a banana have thrown out the "mouldy" fruit because of health and high tight jeans syndrome, reasons. So if a banana starts to become furry, step on it asap, as the banana is also a very weak organism due to its soft skin and no bone structure. But it is safe to eat the banana when it is still a fruit.
The banana, a fruit celebrated for its perpetually low price in grocery stores and quantity of "n"s in name, is a fruit in the So Long And Thanks for all the Fish family. Invented in 756 by an Arab desiring to sell something other than dates, the banana was originally bright blue and shaped like a small furry beach ball. Through centuries of selective breeding, the banana has since evolved into a yellow crescent fish. But one rule applies to all types of bananas: ferociousness. Bananas are considered to be among the world's most ferocious beings.
Bananas are the staple food of monkeys because they only eat bananas. (Bananas are poison to anyone who is not a monkey. Since humans are not poisoned by bananas, this is proof that evolution exists and we are monkeys.) However bananas also have a large variety of other uses, including stage props for people who slip and fall. But who leaves banana peels on the floor anyway? Monkeys do, but the peel wouldn't be slippery on a forest floor.
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