Banana

Description:

Bananas are elliptically shaped fruits, featuring a firm, creamy flesh inside a thick inedible peel. The banana plant grows 10 to 26 feet in height and belongs to the family Musaceae. Banana fruits grow in clusters of 50 to 150, with individual fruits grouped in bunches, known as "hands," of 10 to 25 bananas.

Habitat:

These plants were part of a mountain side demonstration garden showing how ancient Hawaiians grew food plants.

Notes:

Settlers to the Islands also brought mai`a, or bananas. Ancient Hawaiians grew 35-70 different types of bananas, some to be eaten raw and some to be cooked. A banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry, produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.