Via Flickr:
The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant.[4] The plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy and are often mistaken for trees, but their main or upright stem is actually a pseudostem that grows 6 to 7.6 metres (20 to 24.9 ft) tall, growing from a corm. Each pseudostem can produce a single bunch of bananas. After fruiting, the pseudostem dies, but offshoots may develop from the base of the plant. Many varieties of bananas are perennial.
Leaves are spirally arranged and may grow 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) long and 60 cm (2.0 ft) wide.[5] They are easily torn by the wind, resulting in the familiar frond look.
The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster, made up of tiers (called hands), with up to 20 fruit to a tier. The hanging cluster is known as a bunch, comprising 3–20 tiers, or commercially as a "banana stem", and can weigh from 30–50 kilograms (66–110 lb). In common usage, bunch applies to part of a tier containing 3–10 adjacent fruits.
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_tree
Showing posts with label trees of pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees of pakistan. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Trees of Pakistan: From Mastuj to Chitral
September 23, 2011
Trees are the lifeline of our planet. And trees of Pakistan, like trees of rest of the World, are just outstanding. This one was shinning brightly due to the sunlight coming on to it directly. Off course, the photograph was taken from a moving vehicle. But I imagine that it came out nicely.
REQUEST: Can some kindly name this tree for me. That would be great.
Trees are the lifeline of our planet. And trees of Pakistan, like trees of rest of the World, are just outstanding. This one was shinning brightly due to the sunlight coming on to it directly. Off course, the photograph was taken from a moving vehicle. But I imagine that it came out nicely.
REQUEST: Can some kindly name this tree for me. That would be great.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Back trek to Mithramdan : Day 8 / Icy waters near Wargoth
The glacier slides from the top right corner; the icy waters; the beautiful, single tree. This place surely ranks one of the most outstanding places in all of Pakistan - atleast among the places I have visited till now (Sep, 2011). And all my trekker friends agree to it. I hope you will too.
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