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Banana Tree Life Cycle and Facts

Morgan Kersker Period 4

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The second life cycle step

Growth of Fruit

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The Bananas grow in bunches. Each branch makes about 15 hands and each hand has about 20 Bananas. Then the Bananas take 3 months for the Bananas to fully mature. Then they are ready for harvest.

This is a Banana tree

Odd Facts

First LIfe Cycle Step

The last Life Cycle step

Reproduction

  • Some cultures use the fiber in bananas to make clothing (mostly in Japan.
  • If you rub the inside of a banana peel on a wound, the pain will instantly go away
  • If you have a headache rub the inside of the banana peel on your forehead
  • More songs have been made about bananas then any other fruit.
  • A man in India once ate 81 bananas in a half hour
  • There are red Bananas

Gestation

The next life cycle step

After each cycle of producing fruit. The Banana tree dies and produces a new rootstock. This will happen for a few decades.

The plant starts to grow from large rockstocks. It takes nine months until they reach their final maturity. They will grow to in between 15-30 feet tall. Next the stems grow flowers on the end of them.

Harvesting

The Banana clusters are cut down and used for eating.

Also the leafy Banana stock bore is chopped to the ground. Bananas have to be harvested when they are green or else they wont taste as sweet.

This is a dying tree compared to alive trees.

About The Tree Itself

This is a rootstock.

  • They were originally from East and South East Asia
  • They should be living in an area with a temp. of in between 29-100 degrees
  • The climate should be in a hot climate or tropical climate
  • The banana tree usually grows up to 12-25 feet tall.

These are green Bananas that have been harvested

FACTS

  • USES for medicine
  • They have a strong iron in them so they are used for Anemia.
  • They help when you have a hangover, drink a banana milkshake.
  • Bananas have high potassium which can help a student stay more alert or for brain tonic.
  • The banana flower can help with stomach cramps.
  • USES typical ones
  • You can eat the banana itself
  • You can wrap food up in a Banana leaf and cook it
  • The leaf is also used for cigarette wrappers
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