Ever wondered whether you could grow a whole tree from the banana you just bought? Turns out you cannot, for the most part, and even if you could, bananas don't grow on a tree; they're botanically a ...

Until the 1950s. the most popular commercial banana variety in the world was the Gros Michel, which was affectionately known as “Big Mike.” Due to Panama wilt, a fungus disease, it was virtually wiped ...

Behold the banana: America's most popular fruit! It's estimated that most people in the U.S. eat roughly 90 bananas a year, and even when we're not eating them whole, we find them in fruit salads, ...