Telamon || rex (quit<33)

hey heres a really fun fact about bananas!
Despite being commonly referred to as a fruit and casually pictured dangling from banana trees, bananas actually grow on gigantic herbaceous perennialsmeaning that botanically speaking, they are technically the worlds largest herbs rather than trees; their trunks are not true woody stems but tightly packed layers of leaf sheaths forming a pseudostem, which supports a single inflorescence that eventually produces one massive hand of bananas before the plant dies back completely, only to be replaced by genetically identical offshoots called suckers or pups, resulting in what is essentially a self-replicating clonal colony; each banana fruit itself is scientifically classified as a true berry, which means it develops from a single ovary and contains seeds, although in cultivated bananas (primarily the Cavendish variety)