Viewed from within a typical banana plantation, the understory is dark due to the formation of the large canopy leaves. The upright axis, the pseudostem seen here, is not stem tissue at all but formed by the overwrapped leaf bases.
Viewed from within a typical banana plantation, the understory is dark due to the formation of the large canopy leaves. The upright axis, the pseudostem seen here, is not stem tissue at all but formed by the overwrapped leaf bases.