Just a few feet from my front door is the most beautiful banana tree. Its trunk is red, a deep mahagony red, striated with some dark green, brown and black. It grew to about 12 feet and a one point a few weeks ago made a cone that came up from the center of the tree, just like the big leaves.
The cone totally emerged within a week. After it came into the sun and dropped over, the real miracle began. The outside layer of the cone lifted up and rolled upward. Before anything was visible, bees began flying around and under the cover. They found the small white flowers at the tip of each banana finger. When the layer rolled up more, the entire cluster appeared. Once the layer/covering dropped away, the cluster widened the space between the 2 rows of banana fingers.
This process is repeated for each cluster, until the last one, a small cluster with only a few fingers in the group.
The banana skins at this stage are a darker red than even the trunk of the tree. I can hardly wait to see what comes next.
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