Best of Mike #159

Just outside our hotel room on St Kitts were some very fresh bananas.

Bananas actually grow from the ground up.... but because the very sturdy stem can grow 20 - 25 ft tall, they are often mistaken for trees.

Each stem grows a single "banana heart".

That is the the male part of the plant.... and you are seeing it here, partially open at the end of the stem.

The female flowers grow farther up the stem.... and are the part that turns into the fruit.