Banana trees grow in small clusters and each stalk produces one bunch.
When the fruit is ripe and ready to harvest the entire stalk can be cut
down because it will no longer produce.
There are many varieties of eating bananas but this tree produces bananas for cooking. They are rather bitter if you try to eat them raw.
Sometimes the banana stalks can be sliced into thin layers and be boiled resulting in a celery type soup. The flower is also eaten at times.
Cris and Ebet are seen here engineering the harvest of the bunch growing on this stalk.
The whole tree was leaning over on the roof and it took some technical work to get it down. I was of no help but was there to take pictures.
Small starts growing alongside the mature stalks will take the place of the harvested tree.
If you are working on cutting banana trees wear a shirt thats not new because the sap from the tree will stain it permanently.
The same goes for cocoa and coconut milk.
That's why the buko juice vendors in the city usually provide a straw when they open the green coconuts at their roadside stalls.
A good shirt will be ruined if any juice drips on it.
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