Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, The banana flowers are quite a coomon part of our diet in South India, we cook and eat it often, its delicious. Try it next time. Actually its a very important plant - we eat the fruit raw and ripe, the flowers, and the stem which is a refreshing salad type vegetable. In addition, the leaves are commonly used as hygenic biodegradable throw away plates, shaped into containers for food,etc Cheers Jayanand Govindaraj Chennai, India Tina Manley wrote: > At 04:38 PM 8/16/2006, you wrote: > >> bananas start here: >> http://www.sonc.com/banana/pages/banana01.htm >> Sonny > > > Beautiful textures on the banana leaves, Sonny. Are those growing in LA? > > I learned something new about bananas on this trip to Honduras. I was > familiar with the big purple blossom that hangs below the stalk but I > didn't know that each individual banana has an orchid-like blossom on > the end as it forms: > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/65275301 > > The butterflies, bees, and wasps were busy fertilizing each individual > blossom. > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/65275436 > > I'll never eat another banana without thinking about the beautiful > blossoms that become bananas. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA > http://www.tinamanley.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/dimes_for_hunger > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >