banana nut muffins

Growth Habit: Bananas are fast-growing herbaceous perennials arising from underground rhizomes. In mesesti stalks or pseudostems formed by upright concentric layers of leaf sheaths constitute the functional trunks. True stem begins as underground corm which grows up, pushing through the center of the stalk 10-15 months after planting, eventually producing color terminal, which later will bear fruit. Each stalk produces an hour huge flower cluster and then dies. New stalks then grow from the rhizome. Banana plants are extremely decorative, ranking by palm trees, the tropical feeling they lend to the landscape.

Greens: The large oblong or elliptic leaf blades are extensions of the sheaths of pseudostem and joined them with mesesti deep • graduated, short petioles. In the leaves unfurl as the plant grows at the rate of one per week in warm weather, and extend upward and outward, becoming as 9 feet long and 2 feet wide. They may be completely green, green splotches with maroon or green on top and red-purple below. Leaf veins run from mid-rib directly to the outer edge of the paper. Even when the wind shreds of leaf veins are still able to function. Approximately 44 leaves will appear before flowering.

Flowers: The banana color shot from the heart at the end of the stem is the first large, long-oval, tapering, purple-clad friend. As open for slim, nectar-rich, tubular, toothed, white flowers appear. They are grouped in double rows on the whorled flower stalk, each cluster covered by a thick, waxy, hood like bracts and purple and deep red outside it. The flowers occupying the first 5 - 15 rows are women. Since rachis of flowering continues to be extended, sterile flowers born male and female parts appear, followed by those with normal ovaries staminate premature. In the last two flower species decline ultimately most edible bananas.