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Bananas grow on giant herbs

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Everything you learned about trees at the grocery store was a massive lie. That giant tropical pillar holding up the fruit completely lacks solid wood, making it technically just an obnoxiously gigantic leafy herb.

Bananas grow on giant herbs
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