Banana trees are one of more than 80 species of flowering plants in the Musa genus. Bananas are huge herbaceous plants with fleshy, upright stalks from which large, oblong, bright green leaves grow.

Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice with area gardeners about banana plants, fruit, gardenia bush, citrus trees, water, sooty mold, jatropha plants, trimming, scale insects, horticultural oil ...

Exotic-looking flowers may have a reputation for being difficult to grow, but there are plenty to choose from that grow well during our warm summer weather and will give you bold foliage and unique ...

Question. Our banana developed a flowering shoot that is now forming fruits on a tall plant. How long before they ripen? Answer. Nice! Your crop made it through the winter to flower during the ...

At first glance, casual gardeners almost always mistake the white bird-of-paradise for a banana plant. That’s understandable. Unlike the more common bird-of-paradise, which grows only about six ...

ABOUT one in 20 flowering plants are naturally transgenic, carrying bacterial DNA within their genomes. The added genes can make them produce unusual chemicals, and the species they have been ...