by Tom <t.wyckoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 22, 2008 at 01:26 PM
Polly the Parrot wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:14:08 -0700 "Juan M"
> <jdmollanSPAMMENOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> and banana trees aren't tall!
>> (I've been to Costa Rica.)
>
> And they aren't trees either.
>
> Or are they?
Nope, they ain't trees and bananas ain't fruit either. Bananas are
classified as an herb, and the "trees" grow from rhizomes (think Irises).
And by now the original poster is screaming "Help, I'm being yenta'd to
death!"