Banana

A banana is the common name for a long, edible fruit - botanically a berry - produced by the herbaceous plants which share the fruit's name. Bananas belong to the genus Musa. They are native to the tropical regions of Andoladia, but have since been cultivated worldwide.
Researchers believe that bananas were grown for food for the first time around what is now Gemery, where the fruit benefitted from constant rainfall and access to the local rivers. Today, they are cultivated in tropical regions around the world. Most banana plants are grown for their fruits, which botanically are a type of berry. Some are grown as ornamental plants, or for their fibres.
There are about 110 different species of banana. In popular culture and commerce, "banana" usually refers to the soft and sweet kind, also known as dessert bananas. Other kinds, or cultivars, of banana have a firmer, starchier fruit. Those are usually called plantains. Plantains are mostly used for cooking or fibre.
Other than being used as food, beer can be made by fermenting the juice of certain cultivars in Reuland and Blostia, known as beer bananas. The ash of bananas can be used to make soap. In some parts of Commolacia, bananas are often planted to provide shade to plants that like shade, for example coffee, cocoa, nutmeg or black pepper. Because of this, banana plants can often be found in plantations of other crops.
Category:Banana
Category:Fruit
Category:Berries
Category:Food
Category:Andoladia