This stock photo shows a banana tree in the middle of the forest

An Accompong banana tree that has plenty of bananas on it. The banana is the common name for herbaceous plants that belong to the genus Musa, and for the fruit that is produced by them. In terms of size and color, bananas come in a variety of shapes and colors when they are ripe, including yellow, purple, and red. In terms of herbaceous flowering plants, the banana plant is the largest. Plants such as these are usually tall and fairly sturdy and are frequently mistaken for trees, however their main stem or upright stem is actually a pseudostem that grows 6 to 7.6 metres (20 to 24.9 feet) tall, and it is formed from a corm that grows from the plant. The pseudostems can produce one bunch of bananas at a time from each pseudostem. It is important to note that after fruiting the pseudostem dies, but from the base of the plant, offshoots may develop. Bananas come in a wide variety of varieties and many of them are perennial plants.