How do bananas grow?

author: Connors, Kathleen
Everyone knows bananas are a fruit. But unlike apples and oranges, they don't grow on trees! Banana plants look like they have a trunk, but it's really densely packed leaves holding up a huge plant-and bunches of bananas. Young readers will love learning the truth about banana plants, including that they don't grow from seeds but a piece of another banana plant. Colorful photographs take kids right to banana farms as this plant grows and produces a favorite fruit!.
year: 2022
call number/section: 634.77
subjects: bananas, life cycles, fruit, food, gardening, plants
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