Did anyone else not know that bananas and pineapples are not grown on trees.

ccharles000

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:06 PM
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Did anyone else not know that bananas and pineapples are not grown on trees.

Like What the fuck. God I am dumb.

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:14 PM
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1. Banana trees look like trees,

so they're trees, as far as I'm concerned.

Same with pineapples.

Relax, kid....................

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:15 PM
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2. Wait a minute, I saw pineapples growing in Hawaii

and they were not on trees. They grew out of the ground.

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Xipe Totec

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:18 PM
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5. Trees grow out of the ground too

pineapples are not fruits, they are part of the trunk, but they are definitely trees.

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Xipe Totec

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:18 PM
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6. Trees grow out of the ground too

pineapples are not fruits, they are part of the trunk, but they are definitely trees.

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:19 PM
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7. This is a pineapple plant -

and this is a pineapple tree -

But you're talking about what produces the fruit, and, yeah, they're low..............

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Kali

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:33 PM
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11. that looks like a date palm to me

...a date palm TREE:P

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Xipe Totec

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:16 PM
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3. Bananas are overgrown lilies

with delusions of grandeur...

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:23 PM
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9. They taste better, though -

but make truly suckish bouquets, especially for weddings.............

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Xipe Totec

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:32 PM
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10. The flowers are edible too!

http://kerala-kitchen.blogspot.com/2007/03/banana-blossoms-right-on-ur-plate.html

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Kali

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:17 PM
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4. I agree.

I have seen and grown banana TREES!

Now, pineapple - wouldn't call that a tree by any stretch. Cactus maybe;)

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:23 PM
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8. We had a banana tree in our backyard

in Lima. They're technically not trees, but they certainly look and behave like a tree.

And we climbed them like trees to get the fruit.............

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pink-o

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Fri Jul-17-09 06:53 PM
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12. I've seen Banana trees. I've stolen their fruit from my neighbor in Mexico!

As for Pineapple, I don't care if it's a fruit, a veg, or bark from a tree: Nothing on this planet tastes like it! Especially in the tropics, where I go as much as possible and am still attempting to consume my weight of it!!

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zanne

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Fri Jul-17-09 08:10 PM
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13. I've heard that money doesn't grow on trees, either...

But I don't believe it.

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Manifestor_of_Light

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Fri Jul-17-09 11:36 PM
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14. Pineapple is a bromeliad.

I have one growing in a pot.

I cut the top off (with some of the under the fruit stem attached) and stuck it in a pot.

It's about two and a half feet tall, in a year and a half.

Eventually they grow another pineapple fruit on a spear in the center.

People grow bananas in Houston.

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TreasonousBastard

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Fri Jul-17-09 11:40 PM
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15. I've done that, and one I had in a small apartment got to be...

about three feet in diameter and took up the whole place.

What's worse, it was one of the spiny leafed Puerto Rican pineapples, so it poked people and ripped clothes.

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Lex

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Fri Jul-17-09 11:48 PM
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16. Also peanuts are not nuts, they are legumes.

Just FYI for future reference. :)

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