Bananas are grown on large farms that are often called plantations. Many regions of the world grow bananas. These regions include North, Central, and South America, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa, just to name a few. Bananas like and grow best in climates that are humid, wet, and warm.
Banana plants are perennial, which means that they grow repeatedly from the same root system.
A rhizome is the fleshy bulb from which the banana plant grows. As the leafy stalks of the banana plants grow, a flowering stem emerges from the top. It's here that a large bud develops. As each leaf of this bud grows and unfolds, a double row of tiny flowers are revealed. As these flowers mature, they become individual bananas.