Kern, who is chair of the West Los Angeles chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers, finally gave up growing Gros Michel, but ...

Missionaries took some of his banana plants to the South Pacific in ... with bunches of 50-150 individual fruits or "fingers ... Use these social-bookmarking links to share Banana fruit and tree.

Banana ripening is triggered by a chemical called ethylene, which the fruit naturally produces on its own, Robert Paull, a plant physiology professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, told USA ...

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.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred impacted 116 hectares of banana plantations in NSW. (ABC Rural: Kim Honan)He said he had lost about 90 per cent of his production. "The plants at the back won't bunch ...