What do bananas grow on? Not on a palm tree or even on a tree

What do bananas grow on? Ask the baby and you will hear in response that the palm. But that's what the children will say. And wise with life experience, scratching the head, they will say: "Banana grows on a banana tree, but it's not a tree at all, but a real grass, tropical and tall like a tree." And they are right, this is actually grass, although it looks like a tree.

First, the banana does not have a trunk in the traditional sense, that is, it is grass. And what looks like a barrel up to 6 m high (sometimes 9 - 10 m, well, not a banana tree), these are powerful leaves folded into a tube. They begin to grow almost from the ground, and stretch up together. And when grows 30-40 leaves, inside the bundle appears the flower spike, which also wants to the sun. And so he is at a height of several meters.

Secondly, the fruits of a banana are berries (according to botanical classification), but berries, after selection almost without seeds. There are only 250 bananas. Therefore, they grow them vegetatively. Even dried rhizomes do not lose their germination and grow after planting and watering. This was often used by immigrants and they knew well what Grow bananas. These fruits are used both as a dessert, and in the form of flour, and dried, and sauerkraut, and fried, and parenes, etc. After all, this is everyday food in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Even the Germans eat up to 20 kg of bananas per person per year. And America - only 18 kg. But in Germany, since 1933, the Nazis needed all the currency in the country, and as bananas did not grow, they had to start anti-banana propaganda. "A little child died eating bananas; The man who had eaten the bananas was taken to the hospital; "We are not monkeys, German strawberries are better than African bananas." Even the film "Why a banana of yellow color", etc. was even banned. But after the war, American bananas became a symbol of well-being. And in 1995, the Europeans introduced an international standard for "eurobans". And Americans who brought bananas to Europe do not fall under this standard - less size. And although the Germans know what bananas grow on, competition is competition.

Thirdly, young plantations of bananas need to be weeded, and it's hard to do this under the scorching sun. Whereas in ancient Rome the geese called for help, who ate the weeds and did not touch the bananas - they did not like it.

Kievian Anatoly Patiy also knows what the bananas in his garden are growing. He grows them in the greenhouse for more than a year, and manages to harvest the "Kiev dwarf" to 300, and even 400 fruits from the plant, and this is not less than 50 kg. The height of the grass of the Kiev dwarf is not more than 1.7 m, and the Super-glare is even lower - up to 1 m. They grow and bloom in the greenhouse at + 15-16 degrees Celsius. The size of a banana is up to 15 cm. A dwarf is a dwarf.

Bananas must be cleaned before use. The banana skin was used only in comedy movies, so that the hero slipped on it and fell very funny. Now it is used in cosmetics, including for the removal of warts.

The banana skin, carefully dried, contains a large amount of tannin, a coloring agent for black leather products.

But the Brazilians went further. G. Castro (not to be confused with F. Castro, R. Castro and V. Castro) chopped peel cleans drinking water from copper and lead for 10 minutes and eleven times in a row. And Milena Boniolo from the state of Sao Paulo powder from the peel cleans industrial wastewater. And this goodness is not measured by them.