Banana Bananas were hung from nooses around the campus of American University in May 2017 after the student body elected its first black woman student government president. The Unicode standard includes the emoji character . 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,
Banana, Queensland operate a fortnightly mobile library service to Banana and the school. At the 2006 census, Banana had a population of 627. Banana, Queensland Banana is a small town and rural locality in the Shire of Banana, Central Queensland, Australia. In the 2011 census, Banana had a population of 377 people. Banana is located at the intersection of the Dawson and Leichhardt highways, west of the shire's administrative centre, Biloela. The town was named in the early 1860s. The name derives from an old dun-coloured working bullock, called "Banana", used by local stockmen to help them when herding some of the