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Is a banana a fruit or a herb? |
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Both. A banana (the yellow thing you peel and eat)
is undoubtedly a fruit (containing the seeds of the plant: see answer
regarding tomatoes), though since commercially grown banana
plants are sterile, the seeds are reduced to little specks. However, the banana
plant, though it is called a 'banana-tree' in popular usage, is technically
regarded as a herbaceous plant (or 'herb'), not a tree, because the stem does
not contain true woody tissue.
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