Banana

Few plants suggest the tropics as strongly as the banana and, indeed, the plant thrives in the heat and humidity of this region. The banana plant’s appearance is something like a palm; its giant leaves sweep out to 12 feet (3 m 60 cm) in length from what looks like a trunk but is actually the tightly wrapped, overlapping long stalks of its branches. Banana trees are so called because their height can reach 30 feet (9 m). However, the banana is, in fact, the largest plant in the world without a woody trunk or stem; to be more precise, it is actually the world’s largest herb.