This plant is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S… What you will need. Before diving into our How To Grow A Banana Plant 101 guide, it's ...

The banana plant is not a tree, but the world’s largest herb. The fruit itself is, botanically, a berry. Bananas are very slightly radioactive, as they naturally contain potassium-40, a ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of the most destructive diseases for bananas.

A hobby gardener from east London was astonished to find his 10-year-old banana plant had produced fruit for the first time. In Ripon Ray's Hackney garden, a variety of herbs, apples, grapes and ...

A couple were astonished after Britain’s round-the-bend weather saw their banana tree producing fruit for the first time - in 20 YEARS. Nida Mordaunt, 60, brought a tiny root from a banana plant ...

A deadly fungus could destroy most of the world’s supply of Cavendish bananas, but a company in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park is trying to save the banana through gene editing.

Tuticorin is one of the highest banana producing districts. He tried extracting the fibre and making yarn from banana plants. “However, I found that the yarn from varieties of G9, Mothan ...

First of all, a banana plant is actually an herb, not a tree. As for fruit, bananas seldom produce fruit this far north, although a cold hardy variety may produce if conditions are perfect.

Before using banana peels in your garden, you should check the specific requirements of the plants you are hoping to fertilise. Related articles Gardening hacks: 5 leftover food items to boost soil ...

Buy a banana and it will almost certainly be descended from one plant grown at an English stately home. But now we face losing one of the world's best-loved fruits.