Today is Wednesday. It's no
Friday but it's not Monday, either.
To honor the fact that we are in the middle of week, I will tell you five facts of life, about me or someone else, faith, world and existence in general.
And what I want from you, my readers?
I want to know about you!
Leave me your facts, so I can enjoy reading them!
They can also be about you, your life or anything you find fascinating in this world or in the world beyond.
You probably don’t even consider banana a rainforest plant.
It is just too common.
All of eat them for breakfast, know a rocking banana bread recipe and can
get them from the nearest supermarket without any hassle.
Well, bananas might just surprise you.
1. Banana is not a tree but a
herb
Even though we talk about banana trees, they are not really trees but giant
herbs.
After a year, they reach their full height of anywhere between 10 and 20
feet.
According to Wikipedia banana
is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering
plants in the genus Musa.
The blossoms eventually bloom into a fruit, where they then ripen and are
used for sustenance.
2. Banana stems can weigh
nearly 100 pounds and are about 93 percent water
3. There are many different
kinds of bananas
The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated
and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be
green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe.
4. In some
countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains
Worldwide, there is no sharp
distinction between "bananas" and "plantains".
Especially
in the Americas and Europe, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet,
dessert bananas, particularly those of the Cavendish group, which are the main
exports from banana-growing countries.
By contrast, Musa cultivars with
firmer, starchier fruit are called "plantains".
In other regions,
such as Southeast Asia, many more kinds of banana are grown and eaten, so the
simple two-fold distinction is not useful and is not made in local languages.
5. Almost all modern edible
parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species – Musa
acuminata and Musa balbisiana
Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia,
and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea.
6. They are grown in at least
107 countries, primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber,
banana wine and banana beer and as ornamental plants
