This Blog Is Bananas Entry posted by ExoM7 February 18, 2007 441 views Share More sharing options... Followers 0 B-A-N-A-N-A-S! >_>
Kharhorataz Posted February 19, 2007 What I plagerizely said! SOMONE PM ME SOMTHING REALLY DUMB Quote Link to comment
EXTREEEEEME!!! Posted February 19, 2007 Look out, Pete Best! The Grape Fairy is coming to get you! Quote Link to comment
Noda Miki Posted February 19, 2007 Exo! I hope this brought you advice! Never make Blog Entries about fruit! Quote Link to comment
second worst username ever Posted February 19, 2007 Banana is the common name used for herbaceous, cultigenic plants in the genus Musa, and is also the name given the fruit of these plants. Banana plants are of the family Musaceae. They are cultivated primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent for the production of fibre and as ornamental plants. They are native to tropical southeastern Asia but are widely cultivated in tropical regions. Because of their size and structure banana plants are often mistaken for trees. The main or upright growth is called a pseudostem, which when mature, for some species can obtain a height of up to 2–8 m, with leaves of up to 3.5 m in length. Each pseudostem produces a single bunch of bananas, before dying and being replaced by a new pseudostem. The base of the plant is a rhizome (known as a corm). Corms are perennial, with a productive lifespan of 15 years or more. The fruit of these plants (also called bananas) are, technically, a false berry, but are almost exclusively referred to as fruit in popular usage. The banana fruit grow in hanging clusters, with up to 20 fruit to a tier (called a hand), and 3-20 tiers to a bunch. The total of the hanging clusters is known as a bunch, or commercially as a "banana stem", and can weigh from 30–50 kg. The fruit averages 125 g, of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter content. Each individual fruit (or 'finger', or in common usage 'banana') has a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with a fleshy edible inner portion. Typically the fruit has numerous strings (called 'phloem bundles') which run between the skin and the edible portion of the banana, and which are comonly removed individually after the skin is removed. Bananas are a valuable source of Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, and potassium. Globally, bananas rank fourth after rice, wheat and maize in human consumption; they are grown in 132 countries worldwide, more than any other fruit crop. In popular culture and commerce, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet "dessert" bananas that are usually eaten raw. The bananas from a group of cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit are generally used in cooking rather than eaten raw. Bananas may also be dried and ground into banana flour. Although the wild species have fruits with numerous large, hard seeds, virtually all culinary bananas have seedless fruits. Bananas are classified either as dessert bananas (meaning they are yellow and fully ripe when eaten) or as green cooking bananas. Almost all export bananas are of the dessert types; however, only about 10-15% of all production is for export, with the U.S. and EU being the dominant buyers. Quote Link to comment
Dark Matter the Smileh' Man Posted February 20, 2007 dood u totaly mespill BANAYNAY. liek laff out laud Quote Link to comment
Little Miss Krahka Posted February 20, 2007 YOU FORGOT TO CENSOR THE BLOG WORD WITH AN ANNOYING PAUSE AND COY HANDGESTURE. HOW CAN THIS PLAY ON MTV? Quote Link to comment
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