Banana trees are made up of giant leaves, not a trunk. So they’re more like a giant onion instead of a 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 feel like bananas would be cold as hell if they were growing that fast.
So I’ve searched and searched and my wife and I watched a lot of YouTube timelapses and we couldn’t find one that grew that fast. Not saying it isn’t the max, but it’s probably very abnormal
wikipedia cites this book for reference
Anecdotal, but I’ve seen banana plants push out leaves vertically nearly that fast at their peak growth. Each leaf can be close to 6ft long, maybe longer. They shoot straight up out of the top of the plant when they come out, so they do temporarily add that much height.
When the leave gets completely pushed out, it unfolds and leans to the side and in the end only adds a foot or less to the full height.
Not sure if that counts, but they are fun plants to have. I’m in Midwest America… so you don’t have to be in a tropical area to grow them, but we do have to cut it down every year and cover it in mulch and leaves to protect it.
Our biggest gets to 16-18ft tall every year. One of it’s children we’ve given away is a bit bigger.
Fun fact: banana tree trunks grow horizontally underground. The above ground part is a leaf bunch that produces exactly one bunch in their lifetime. Which is why farmers cut it down after harvesting, to stimulate the tree to produce new shoots and more nanners.
i chopped down a banana tree once, definitely not wood, was like cutting a large celery
I’m going to need a banana for scale.
Blueberry just chilling there in the corner the whole time, secure in their berry-ness
they wouldnt accept it quite so easily. their pride would make them devolve into berry cultists, never accepting the truth.
I’ve gone down the rabbit hole. Depending on culinary, scientific, or horticulture, nobody agrees on what things are classified as.
Exactly? Sorry, nerds ruined this one.
You know what a fruit and a vegetable are. It has nothing to do where the seeds are. Botanists don’t get to change the English language.
Like everything else in English, you’ll figure it out from context.
Vegetables don’t exist botanically and fruit has a very different meaning in a botanical context when compared to the culinary definition
Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
