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Originally Posted by Catire
According to someone I asked here they are simply Apple Bananas but for some reason they sometimes dont grow to their full size. But im looking in google to see if i can find if thatīs right or not
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hm, "apple bananas" sounds right actually, but i think the small ones are a different variety from the big ones. but what do i know, i didn't even know (before she left) why she was so excited about going to guadeloupe to eat bananas.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
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....
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i had no idea ! i thought they only grew in tropical places. i also didn't know there were purple ones or anything besides the apparently very banal green-yellow-black ones.
(when they get ripe sometimes those get a bit stripey, if you wait too long to eat them...)
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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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french wikipedia says they're actually in the same family as grass !!
i think it said they're sometimes called "the world's biggest grass".