Banana trees are one of more than 80 species of flowering plants in the Musa genus. Bananas are huge herbaceous plants with ...

First, that the yellow banana is not a fruit (because it has no seeds), and second, that it comes from a tree (the banana tree). There are close to 1,000 species of banana today.

There is a fertilizer specifically formulated for banana trees, one recommended NPK ratio (nitrogen-phosphorous-potassium) is 8-10-8. I did notice one in particular available locally that is 8-2-12.

Oikos Tree Crops. Kalamazoo. Owner Ken Asmus has an orchard of about 100 pawpaw trees that he collects from. The seeds are processed from the fruit and refrigerated and you can order the seeds online.

Fire buffers composed of irrigated banana trees could slow and calm wildfires and generate profit for residents of fire-prone regions, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. Climate change ...