Banana Flower
Banana flowers are among my favorite. They are so big and beautiful - well, to tell you the truth - they like to show off just a little.
First, they are the color of the leaves and you have to be lucky to spot one. But pretty soon, they burst on the scene with beautiful dark red petals with smaller pink flowers hidden under each large red leaf.
Hummin birds love to drink from the pink flowers which eventually will become a hand of bananas.
The large red flower petals fall to the ground as the flower keeps growing longer, with new pink flower future banana hands being revealed.
Then, after a while - no more pink flowers appear and the stem still keeps growing. Now is the time to cut off the flower and eat it. So delicious!!
And the long wait for the bananas begins. They have to grow and grow and then ripen. That takes several months!
My bananas live off our washing machine water which is piped into the banana circle. And they are worth the wait!! So good!
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They can literally grow so big the tree will look weighted down.
They do!! Usually, I have to prop them up and one time, I just put a stone under the bananas so they wouldn't sit in dirt because the trunk had fallen over...
Lol, I do the same here. We stay close to a swamp so when the heavy rains fall, many of our bananas and plantain trees fall too.
Wow! I've never seen a lovely banana flower. Thanks for sharing the growth of the plant!
When I saw one for the first time, I was so impressed - and still am...
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Yes! Banan flowers are beautiful. How do you prepare your flower? And yes, I water mine with "grey' water from washer and water from out biofilter. They love that!
yes, It's look like as usual. But can you imagine how so many small flower to align in a row. thanks to God for his every creation. A lot of small flowers together make a big flower. Thus every good country together make a big peaceful world for human civilization. we are human being, everything is possible to us. Thanks to you for sharing the banana flower.
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