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Some Interesting Banana Facts:
• Bananas are actually an herb rather than a tree.
• Bananas are distant cousins to ginger, turmeric, and cardamom.
• Banana trees are easy and fast growers.
• Bananas clone themselves, in other words, they reproduce asexually.
• Banana offshoots are called “corms”, “pups”, “mats” or “suckers”.
• Banana trunks consist of concentric layers of leaf sheaths.
• Bananas come from a flower maturing into groups called “hands”.
• Banana hands circle the stalk, collectively called a “bunch”.
• Bananas are the world’s best-selling fruit, outranking the apple and orange.
