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Banana plant... What kind of plant?

  • What kind of plant is a banana crop? My teacher said its not a tree. So all that's left is Shrub, Grass, Vine or Herb. My teacher says its depending on its structure. Trees should have woody trunks but the banana "tree" only have a soft trunk. So what do you think? I think its a grass.

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    A lot of people call banana plants trees in cause of their size. Even the plants profile in USDA says: tree, shrub, subshrub: see "growth habit" http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MUPA3 But correctly it is classified as "arborescent (tree-like) perennial herb" http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Musa/index.html

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The banana tree is a herb aka herbaceous plant and is the largest of all herb plants...

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The banana plant is the largest of all herbaceous plants.Banana is really not a "tree" but a herbaceous perennial.The Banana tree is not actually a true tree; it is an herb in the genus Musa.The upright part of the Banana tree is very similar to the stem of a true tree and is an example of a so called pseudostem. The pseudostem of the Banana tree can grow up to 2-8 meters in height.From the pseudostem, large green leaves that can reach a size of 3.5 meters will grow. you can find more information in these sites :

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The banana plant, often erroneously referred to as a "tree", is a large herb, with succulent, very juicy stem (properly "pseudostem") which is a cylinder of leaf-petiole sheaths, reaching a height of 20 to 25 ft (6-7.5 m) and arising from a fleshy rhizome or corm.

Elizabeth H

Its not a grass it is a plant without trunk like others have.

Rashmi K

its a plant tree

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