Ripe Bananas

Ripe Bananas

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 and are 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.

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 that’s 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.

Here is Hugo enjoying the freshly cooked bananas.

Bananas