He's right
A Banana is a herb (the plant not the fruit).

It is also interesting to note that Bananas we eat are all from the same plant. Wild bananas are packed with rock-hard seeds in the fruit, and not very edible because of it. The one we eat (the Cavendish Banana) is a freak where it has all pulp and no seeds, those black dots you get at the end are what should be seeds.

So, no seeds no new plants. The new plants are created by taking cuttings from the other plants. So genetically they are all the same plant.

Even more interesting is the fact that we used to eat the Jackson Banana which was smaller and tasted nicer, but a black mould killed all the plants all over the world.

Apparently this mould has begun to attack the Cavendish, so eat all the bananas you can now, because they might be all gone in a few years.

oh and Spatula is the funniest word in the english language.

Edit: and there are more useless facts in last weeks QOW than this one.
( umbongo I vote for Evil Lu as Mayor of /talk, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 15:25, Reply)