Re: How do banana plants 'walk'?

Date: Fri Apr 14 13:44:52 2006
Posted By: David Hershey, Faculty, Botany, NA
Area of science: Botany
ID: 1144752174.Bt

Message:


The banana plant's permanent stem is a rhizome, a horizontal underground stem.
It sends up herbaceous shoots that bear the banana fruits and then die. The
rhizome elongates so new shoots are at some distance from previous shoots.


References


Banana and Plantain - Musa spp.

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