Queen Zelda, there are many varieties of of bananas. I have a book of 40 or so cultivars you can purchase here and grow in frost free areas. Some can even make it on light frost areas. I have bananas on my 1783 cultivar right now. Whether they grow enough to eat before the weather cools off I don't know. They are not very tasty anyways, but they're fun to have in the yard (except they're attacking the house and I'll have to spend weeks digging them up this winter.
They come in colors too, red as well as yellow, and there's even a purple variety, and a striped one, as well....
The plant are called trees as they can get to 8+ meters high, but are actually just plants. They are distantly related to irises, (and more closely related to Cannas...)
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