Bananas are everywhere — school cafeterias, $9 smoothies, perhaps even rotting on your kitchen counter. They’re a cheap ...

The soils were infested and could not be replanted with banana trees. So, a new banana type called the Cavendish was developed. It was resistant to Panama disease. The transition to the Cavendish was ...

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

At first, you may think the home is no place for a banana tree (Musa spp.), but there are multiple dwarf species under 10 feet tall that you can grow indoors. For instance, the dwarf cavendish banana ...

We must do so that China, South Korea, Japan, or any other market, whenever bananas are mentioned, immediately think of ...

The friend said they weren’t trees, that she could dig them up for winter ... in the freezer to make banana bread someday.

Specifically, it's affecting the Cavendish bananas, the world's most popular type of banana, attacking its roots and causing the plant to rot and die. Without intervention, we really are facing a ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for ...

Like bunya pines, black bean trees (Castanospermum australe) have been an important food source for thousands of years. While the large seeds are toxic, they can be made edible. Here, we have ...

This affliction, Panama disease, decimated the world’s former most popular banana, the Gros Michel. Now a strain of the disease called tropical race 4 threatens the existence of Cavendish ...