Banana Banana A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus "Musa". In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild
Janet Banana Janet Banana Janet Banana (born Janet Mbuyazwe in 1938) is the widow of Zimbabwe's first President, the late Canaan Banana, whom she married in 1961. She served as the first First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1980-87. The couple had four children. Due to a constitutional amendment, Canaan Banana was removed from the office of President, into which Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was instated. Despite her term as First Lady, Janet Banana has not received a pension from either Mugabe or his successor as President, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mrs. Banana sought political asylum in the United Kingdom in October 2000. She was