We have about five hundred banana plants in our garden. Some parts of our garden look like a forest as these tall thickly growing plants obliterate the sight beyond.
One phenomenon that fascinates me is how, when the fruit bunch emerges from the stem of the plant, there is a brown protective cover over each layer of the banana! As each layer of banana grows the the protective cover falls off.
At the end of each young banana fruit there is a flower which has nectar which squirrels come to gather.
My presence halted this squirrel from jumping from the coconut palm to the banana plant for its nectar gathering. I waited for a while to take pictures of the squirrel gathering nectar! But it had not returned.
Banana is a fruit for humans, avians and squirrel.
A fruit gives honey when it is tender!
Even before the fruit is edible it gives honey as food for squirrels and birds !
A banana plant dies after the bunch of banana is cut when ready to ripen. It has given honey and fruit and is no more! But many young banana plants would have sprouted from the tuber underneath. So one banana plant during its life of about a year or so would have given birth to about three or four young plants along with giving its fruit.
A symbol for living!
Giving freely and fully!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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