What do you call a small cluster of bananas? Take a guess...
If you guessed a bunch – you’re going to need a forklift to get those home. Technically, a group of bananas you’d see in the supermarket is called a hand - and the individual bananas are called fingers. Bananas grow in clusters with tiers. Each tier, or hand, can have up to 20 bananas on there. A bunch of bananas is actually the entire cluster, with all the tiers or hands. Commercially, that’s referred to as a banana stem.
While we’re getting technical, the banana tree is not really a tree at all. It’s actually a giant herb and the banana is the fruit of that herb. Bananas are believed to be the first fruit ever cultivated by humans – but we didn’t get them here until 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana sold for 10 cents – which would be about $3 now.
While we’re getting technical, the banana tree is not really a tree at all. It’s actually a giant herb and the banana is the fruit of that herb. Bananas are believed to be the first fruit ever cultivated by humans – but we didn’t get them here until 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana sold for 10 cents – which would be about $3 now.
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