Parts to a banana tree

Like they demonstrated at Chiquita, growing bananas is not an easy task. Like corn it requires humans to take care of them. Bananas have four important parts, The leaf, flower, seed, and the bulb. First three seeds must be planted at different times but together in the same spot. This makes the “banana family” . Interestingly enough for humans to eat bananas they must be grown asexually. They are “parthenocarpic” ( the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary) because they have one diploid parent and one tetraploid parent, so they cannot grow seeds.
Banana tree leaves are used all over the world for different kinds of recipes, most familiar to me, the cover to tamales we have every Christmas. The leaves are strong and durable, they are sold frozen and have been known to predate to the Iron Age in South East Asia. There are also a wide range of different banana flowers, which yes make the banana look and maybe taste different (just an assumption) such as, the Ornata which will produce yellow or orange flowers. The Musa beccarii is also called the Orange Flame Banana, a popular flower. A Musa velutina is often called a Baby Pink Banana because it grows small pastel pink bananas. Humming bees and insects pollinate the banana flower by eating its sweet nectar.