Is banana herb or shrub,why?
Banana, common name for any of a genus of tropical, tree-like herbaceous plants and also for their fruit. Species of the genus are native to south-eastern Asia but are now grown extensively in all tropical countries for their fruit, fibre, or foliage. The banana is a large, herbaceous perennial with a plant rhizome (underground stem), from which the plant is perpetuated by sprouts or suckers. In the tropics the stems are annual-that is, they die after the fruit ripens, and new stems are developed from buds on the rhizome. These buds are the common means of propagating and making new plantations, and the growth is so rapid that the fruit is usually ripe within ten months after the offsets are planted. When fully grown the stem reaches a height of 3 to 12 m (10 to 40 ft) and is surmounted by a crown of large oar-shaped leaves up to 3 m (10 ft) long, with a strong fleshy stalk and midrib. The flowers are borne in great spikes from the centre of the crown of leaves and are arranged in whor
