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What's up with the banana? Is it from outter space?

Dear Mountie
If you cut into a banana; it divides into 3 pieces.
All other fruit are bi-polar. What's up with the banana? Is it from outter space?

Yours Truly
Steef

Dear Steef

Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies. The banana plant does not grow from a seed but rather from a rhizome.

The banana, in my humble opinion, has more in common with a berry than a fruit.
And if you use a knife you can easily circumvent the peculiar splitting issue.

Yours Truly
Mr Mountie

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