is banana  tree or a Herb or what family it belongs to?
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They are not in the family of trees as the don't have trunk. Their trunk is made of leaves... Do u read TOI's Repliyes Believe it or not. the answer appeared in it...
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umbrella tree-\n\nThe African Corkwood Tree (Musanga cecropioides), also known as the Umbrella tree, is found in Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola and eastward to Uganda. It is typical in secondary forests..\n\nThis tree is also known as Parasolier, N'Govoge, Doe, Umbrella Tree, kombo-kombo, musanga, musanda and Govwi.\n\nif you are looking for umbrella plant the links are:-\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Plant\n\nanother piece of info is;-\n\nNative to Australia, New Guinea and Java, the Umbrella Tree, Schefflera actinophylla, is very common in South Florida and the warmer parts of Central Florida.  Schefflera is also seen indoors as a houseplant all over the world\n\nRated up to 40 feet, Umbrella Tree has large shiny medium green leaves held in groups of seven compound leaves.  Observers in New Guinea report seeing Schefflera growing epiphytic starting as much as 40 feet up in tall rainforest trees\n\nMature trees outdoors in full sun develop very showy flowers in the summer.   The Schefflera in the pic above is in the final red stage of bloom\n\nUnfortunately, this Schefflera is also on Florida's "Don't Plant" list of nuisance trees.  What many people don't realize is outdoors, Schefflera is a nuisance for three reasons:\n\nSchefflera seeds itself very easily causing Schefflera to grow where no one wants a large tree \nRoots are strong, aggressive and can take over much of the surrounding soil \nSchefflera sheds leaves constantly creating a littered appearance below \nIf you plant Schefflera, most any well drained soil will do.  After establishment, occasional water and occasional food are all that is required\n\nThere are numerous varieties of Dwarf Schefflera most often called Arborcola.  Called Miniature Umbrella Plant, Schefflera arborcola is native to Taiwan.  Arborcola can have all green leaves or variegated either green-yellow or green-white, depending on variety and sun or shade locations\n\nArborcola are Schefflera shrubs generally used in mass to fill bed space and provide contrast in colors and foliage.  This pic shows Arborcola used that way behind impatiens.   Arborcola is a slow growing plant, so it is easy to keep within bounds.   Pruned to create more branching, Arborcola is very nice with none of the negatives of its larger cousin\n\nSchefflera farinosa (variegated) is native to Malaya and Indonesia, has green-yellow leaves like Arborcola, but much larger in size.  Farinosa is an excellent plant far less seen but perhaps even more attractive than Arborcola\n\nSchefflera digitata is native to New Zealand, a shrub with a much thinner habit in green leaves that have points rather than rounded\n\nUmbrella tree indoors as a houseplant is easy to grow if kept warm, in good light and the soil fairly dry.  Just follow basic houseplant procedures to have a nice Schefflera indoors all year round
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Division: Magnoliophyta\nClass: Magnoliopsida\nOrder: Caryophyllales\n\n\nSalsola kali  (prickly saltwort, roly-poly) is a succulent annual or short-lived perennial herb, with recurved, pointed leaves. The flowers are in a terminal spike and the fruits are dry with a broad, papery wing. Dry plants can form 'tumbleweeds' and roll in the wind. Native to Russia.
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root, stem, leaf and flower
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A plum is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera (peaches, cherries, bird cherries, etc) in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitary (not clustered), the flowers being grouped 1-5 together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side, and a smooth stone.
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Etymology\nFrom the Wolof banäna, through the Spanish and Portuguese, Mandingo, and Fulani
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it should be Jatropha Curcas?
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Plants, i think. look in a dictionnary or online.
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Scientific name: Musa paradisiaca\ncheck links below\n\nMonocotyledonous plants have no secondary thickening, only primary thickening. Differentiates it from trees in general, though one do find monocotyledonous 'trees' , good examples : Dracaena, Bamboo, Tree Aloe, Banana
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The base of a banana plant is a rhizome (known as a corm). Corms are perennial, with a productive lifespan of 15 years or more.\n\nSo you see that the corms are a special type of rhizome. So what you have read in the past & what you are reading now are not contradictory.\n\nThe main or upright growth of a banana plant is called a pseudostem, which, when mature, will obtain a height of 2–8 m (varies between different cultivars), with leaves of up to 3.5 m in length. Each pseudostem produces a single bunch of bananas, before dying and being replaced by a new pseudostem.\n\nSince they do not produce seeds, bananas are vegetatively propagated by means of 'suckers' which develop from buds on the underground rhizome. Each sucker is genetically identical to its parent plant. This means that each banana cultivar consists of a group of genetically identical plants (a clone). Variation between clones results from mutations in the vegetative cells of the plant. In all there are some 300 cultivars of Musa, all differing slightly in various characteristics such as height, disease resistance or colour and type of pulp.\n\nTo Wai I:- I searched about it & found that chupon is a kind of tree. I am not too sure but I think you should not confuse yourself with a special type of  stem & a tree having it. Many other plants may posses the same characteristic.You may try this link :\n\n\nhttp://www.windsorplywood.com/tropical_woods/chupon.html
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Ginkgo biloba, known as the maidenhair tree, is one of the oldest trees on Earth, once part of the flora of the Mesozoic period. The ginkgo tree is the only surviving species of the Ginkgoaceae family. This ancient deciduous tree may live for thousands of years. Ginkgo is indigenous to China, Japan, and Korea, but also thrived in North America and Europe prior to the Ice Age. This drastic climate change destroyed the wild ginkgo tree throughout much of the world. In China, ginkgo was cultivated in temple gardens as a sacred tree known as bai gou, thus assuring its survival there for over 200 million years. Ginkgo fossils found from the Permian period are identical to the living tree, which is sometimes called a living fossil.
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Witch-hazel is the common name for a genus of shrubs Hamamelis in the family Hamamelidaceae, with four species, two in North America (H. virginiana and H. vernalis), and one each in Japan (H. japonica) and China (H. mollis). The Persian Ironwood, a closely related tree formerly treated as Hamamelis persica, is now given a genus of its own, as Parrotia persica, as it differs in the flowers not having petals. Other closely allied genera are Parrotiopsis, Fothergilla and Sycopsis (see under Hamamelidaceae). The Witch-Hazel is not closely related to the Common Hazel.\n\nThey are popular garden shrubs, grown for their clusters of rich yellow to orange-red flowers which begin to expand in the autumn before the leaves fall and continue throughout the winter. It is one of the earliest blooming garden plants. The bark and leaves are astringent, the extract, also referred to as Witch Hazel, is used medicinally. Extracts from its bark and leaves are used in aftershave lotions and lotions for treating bruises. The seeds contain a quantity of oil and are edible. The name is derived from the use of the twigs as divining rods, just as hazel twigs were used in England.\n\nHamamelis species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Feathered Thorn.\n\nThe word witch has its origins in Middle English wiche, from the Old English wice, meaning "pliant" or "bendable", and which also gives us Wicker and weak.
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watermelon, plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Africa and introduced to America by Africans transported as slaves. Watermelons are now extensively cultivated in the United States and are popular also in S Russia. The fleshy, juicy fruit is eaten fresh, the rind is pickled, and in Asia the seeds are eaten (the dry wild watermelon was originally domesticated for its seeds). Seedless and thin-rinded cultivated varieties have been developed, and one white-fleshed variety, the citron melon, is used like citron in preserving. Watermelons are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Violales, family Curcurbitaceae.
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Yes.\n\nAmong the natural compounds screened from diverse edible plants in Thailand and other countries in south-eastern Asia for antitumor properties, 1'-acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA), obtained from rhizomes of the commonly used ethno-medicinal plant Languas galanga (Zingiberaceae), potently inhibits tumor promoter-induced Epstein–Barr virus activation (1). It inhibits xanthine oxidase (2), the enzyme that catalyses the hydroxylation of purine species to yield superoxide ions, and occurs in large amounts in certain brain tumors. . . . . These mechanisms may contribute, at least in part, to its potential use as an anticancer drug. \n\nThe polyamines (putrescine, spermidine and spermine) are indispensable for proliferation and differentiation of cells. . . . . These biochemical and physiological modifications can eventually control vital cell events such as apoptosis (18–23). Polyamines may be involved in the onset of DNA degradation, as spermidine and spermine stabilize chromatin- and polyamine-depleted cells in which chromatin and DNA structural changes occur (23,24). \n\n[20] Dypbukt,J.M., Ankarcrona,M., Sjoholm,A., Strom,K., Orrenius,S. and Nicotera,P. (1994) Different prooxidant levels stimulate growth, trigger apoptosis or produce necrosis of insulin secreting RINm5F cells. The role of intracellular polyamines. J. Biol. Chem., 269, 30553–30556.
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all plants are part of the plantae kingdom
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here in venezuela they fruit all year and the one i have in my garden produces about 50 to 70 in a year. But in the rainy zones (teh banana producing zones) they produce about 200.\nAnd technically they are neither a bush or a tree, they're a monocotiledoneus tall herb, but they have the height an the silouhete of a tree so call them banana trees and forget about all the nonsense discussion
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The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica (other names Galenia asiatica, Salvadora indica), is a small tree or shrub with a crooked trunk, seldom more than one foot in diameter, bark scabrous and cracked, whitish with pendulous extremities. Its fibrous branches have been used as toothbrushes by many Islamic communities — miswaks.