The banana
tree is a very common tree in our country. It grows in some other countries of
Asia and Latin America also. The banana tree is not really a tree. Its trunk is
made of
many barks. Its body has no wood. The barks are one upon another and thus
they make body. The barks are soft like sponge. The tree has no branches. It
has big and leaves at the top. The tree is light green. It looks pretty.
The tree does not grow from seeds. Shoots come
out from old banana trees. These shoots are taken out from the mother tree.
Holes are made into the ground some six or seven cubits apart. Then the young
shoots are placed in these holes. The foot of the plant is covered with loose
earth. The tree grows quickly but it does not grow in water.
The tree gives
fruit only once and then it dies. At the very top of the plant there comes out
a cluster with some fifty or more fruits on it. In
shape and size they look like tiny fingers. Day by day they grow bigger and
thicker. When one or two of the fruits looks yellow, the bunch is cut off and
kept in the house. After some days many of the fruits ripen and become soft.
Then they
are fit for eating. Ripe bananas have nice smell. They are tasteful and nutritious.
The banana tree
itself is of no great use to us. Boys make raft with it. Its dry leaves may
also be used as fuel. But it does us the greatest good with its fruits.
Banana are much in demand. So the cultivation of banana trees car brings us
money
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