What do bananas grow on? Ask the baby and hear in response that on the palm. But children will say that. And those wise in life experience, scratching the back of their heads, will say: "A banana grows on a banana tree, but it is not a tree at all, but real grass, tropical and tall, like a tree." And they are right, this is actually grass, although it looks like a tree.
Firstly, a banana does not have a trunk in the traditional sense, that is, it is an herb. And what looks like a trunk up to 6 m high (sometimes 9-10 m, why 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 30-40 leaves grow, a flower stalk appears inside the bundle, which also wants to be in the sun. And so he finds himself at a height of several meters.
Secondly, the fruits of a banana are berries (according to the botanical classification), but berries, after selection, are almost without seeds. There is one for 250 bananas. Therefore, they are grown 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 as a dessert, and in the form of flour, and dried, and pickled, and fried, and steamed, etc. After all, this is everyday food in Latin America, Africa, Asia. Even Germans eat up to 20 kg of bananas per person per year. And America is only 18 kg. But in Germany, since 1933, the Nazis needed the whole currency in the country, and since they did not grow bananas, they had to start anti-banana propaganda. “The little child died, having eaten bananas; a man, overeating with bananas, was taken to the hospital; "We are not monkeys, German strawberries are better than African bananas." The film Why a Yellow Banana, etc., was even banned. But after the war, American bananas became a symbol of prosperity. And in 1995, Europeans introduced the international standard for "Eurobana". And the Americans who brought bananas to Europe do not fall under this standard - smaller size. And although the Germans know what bananas grow on, competition is competition.
Thirdly, young banana plantations need to be weeded, and it is difficult to do this under the scorching sun. Whereas in ancient Rome geese called for help, who ate weeds and did not touch the bananas, they did not like them.
Kiev Anatoly Patiy also knows what bananas grow in his garden. He has been growing them in a greenhouse for more than one year, and manages to get a crop of the “Kiev dwarf” up to 300, or even 400 fruits from a plant, and this is not less than 50 kg. The height of the Kiev Dwarf grass is no more than 1.7 m, and the Super Dwarf is even lower - up to 1 m. They grow and bloom in the greenhouse at + 15–16 degrees Celsius. The size of one banana is up to 15 cm. A dwarf is a dwarf.
Bananas must be peeled before use. The banana peel was used only in comedies, so that the hero slipped on it and fell very funny. Now it is used in cosmetics, including for the removal of warts.
The peel of bananas, carefully dried, contains a large amount of tannin - a coloring matter for black leather products.
But the Brazilians went further. G. Castro (not to be confused with F. Castro, R. Castro and V. Castro) with crushed peel cleans drinking water from copper and lead in 10 minutes and eleven times in a row. And Milena Boniolo from the state of Sao Paulo with peeling powder cleans industrial wastewater. And this good is not measured by them.