If you're looking to add some vibrancy and interest to your indoor plant collection, there's a lot to love about including some tropical trees. One such plant you may never have considered as a ...

Spotted a pink banana plant and wondered if it’s real? We explain what pink bananas are, whether you can eat them.

Banana trees are a common feature in New Orleans area landscapes. They are primarily grown for the tropical look they bring with their enormous leaves waving in the summer breezes. SUSAN POAG / THE ...

Plantains the type that has to be cooked, is much taller.Banana descriptionBananas are perennial herbs, not trees. They grow similar to grasses and corn and are therefore monocotyledons and belong to ...

WEST CHESTER >> Along West Chestnut Street grows a little bit of the tropics. Over the past five years longtime resident Marta Ortiz has been growing banana trees in the front yard of her row home.

A terminal cancer sufferer has managed to grow rare Japanese bananas in his Devon back garden. Paul Edis, 54, and his wife Srey-March, 32, planted a Musa basjoo tree - which originates from Japan’s ...