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 leaf The leaves are later removed. In Vietnamese cuisine, banana leaves are used to wrap foods such as "cha-lua". South Indian cuisine is traditionally served on a banana leaf, especially in the states of Andhra Pradesh,Telangana,Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Odisha and in the Northern and Eastern parts of Sri Lanka. In these regions, it is customary to serve food on a banana leaf during festive occasions, and banana is often a part of the food served. In Maharashtra, on special occasions like Ganesh chaturthi, people eat off banana leaves. The banana leaf is also used for wrapping fish, which can