Banana trees are not actually trees, but, nonetheless, some types deserve more credit for their ability to potentially ...

If you thought that the only type of bananas out there were the ones piled up at your grocery store, think again. There are actually more than 1,000 types of bananas consumed around the world, ranging ...

The important thing to remember about growing banana trees is that they usually grow ... the Japanese banana (aka the ...

Namwa bananas in Hawaii. The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa, is not a tree but an enormous herb. It was first ...

BRITS are bracing themselves for more heavy rain and strong winds as the remnants of Hurricane Kirk head towards the UK. The ...

Researchers have successfully developed a banana plant resistant to two of the most harmful diseases affecting bananas: ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of ...

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

His obsession with the iconic American trees began a few years ago after he ... It was an auspicious year to be walking the red­woods. After more than two decades battling environmentalists ...

The cultivar was chosen by the burgeoning banana industry because it produces large, tasty fruit that can be cut from the tree unripe ... For example, Dwarf Red, that tastes a little like ...