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
Anna Banana event was a "Banana Communion" (with visitors kneeling to receive a "host" slice of banana and a sip of banana liquor). At the New Gallery in Calgary in 2000 Banana hosted a Banana Consciousness-Raising event, leading the audience through a guided fantasy of a banana's life from a corm in the ground to the fruit in the market. In her Banana Splitz parody of a TV game show (presented at the Banff Center) Banana exceeded the comfort zone of participants by asking them to ad-lib banana news stories, realizing that a visual-arts audience differs from an improv-theatre group. For her