The banana ( Musa spp . ) is not technically a tree but is instead a gravid herbaceous plant . Bananasare grown in large - scale yield production in warm climates , but ornamental banana tree with varied growth habits and fruit characteristics are unremarkably grown as houseplants in temperate climates . With proper ethnical attention and satisfactory environmental conditions , bananas should be capable to give fruit that may , depending on the specific banana tree type , be toothsome . Banana plants may also be used for a number of non - food purposes .

Description

Unlike trees , the banana has a succulent , juicy pseudostem that emerges from a sarcoid corm in the ground from which multiple suckers mature . The banana tree plant life has liquid , attendant folio set up in a spiral around the bow . calculate on the species or hybrid , leaves can be up to 9 feet foresighted and may be exclusively unripe or variegated . virile and distaff flowers are borne in a cluster at the summit of the stem ; female flowers eventually mature into the banana fruits .

Cultural and Environmental Care

Bananas favour rich , productive soils and a cheery , sheltered localisation . These plants thrive under uniformly warm or hot experimental condition . works growth slows if temperature fall below 60 point Fahrenheit , and irreversible halt price may fall out below 32 degree . High winds can make leaf shredding and dry and may topple plants . Banana plants demand ample water and will suffer if the soil dries out ; however , they are not torrent tolerant . Each stem only produces flowers and fruits once , so the alive stem must be issue aside to permit new suckers to come out .

Common Pests and Diseases

Banana plant , whether arise indoors or on a plantation , may be get to by a number of pests and pathogen . nematode are often a major trouble and are well keep in line with nematicides , repeated ploughing and Sunday vulnerability or crop rotation . Additionally , corms should be disinfect in blistering water solutions before planting . Other banana pests include the black weevil and various species of thripid and mite . Several fungus , bacterium and viruses can attack banana plant life , causing the growth of symptoms that range from leaf place or streaks to rotting yield or root .

Food Uses

All banana plants can produce edible fruit , but the yield perceptiveness , seediness , gloss , size of it and other characteristics depend on the species or potpourri . banana can be peeled and eaten raw , baked peeled or unpeeled , made into a puree suitable for infants and used in many other ways . In accession to this plant ’s highly versatile fruit , peeled stems can be chopped and added to salad or steam with other veggie .

Non-Food Uses

Banana leaf are unremarkably used as plant , for wrapping food and as an eye - shade or for tribute from rainwater . The banana pseudostem can be utilized for its fiber . The pulp can be used to manufacture rope , paper , position mat and other good , but the pseudostem is often most valuable economically if it is hack and leave in a area for its constitutional matter message . All office of the banana have medicative value . For exercise , flowers can be ready and eaten by diabetic or used for bronchitis , dysentery and ulcer . plant life sap can be take internally or applied externally to confidence game and bites . The young leaves can be used as a poultice for skin irritations . The roots , ashes of peels and leaves and come mucilage also serve medicinal purposes in some region and cultures .

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