f13r - banana?

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JKP: Banana does produce several stalks from the same corm. Admittedly, these take on a more separate look than they do in the VM, but they are still growing from the same base.



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I guess I can't help looking at this from a gardener's point of view. To me, each of those is a corm. It's like garlic, you pull off the bulbs, plant them individually, and they grow.

So I still see that as one stalk per corm, not as many leaves coming from one corm.


I guess for this kind of thing, it comes down to how accurate the drawing is. The VMS is many stalks per corm, the banana is one stalk per corm, even the new banana stalks that form along the edge of the "mother" stalk have one stalk each.



Petasites leaves are harvested for medicinal purposes, even now, by cutting them near the base but it's best to leave some of them uncut so the plant will live, grow and propagate, as in the VMS drawing. The rhizomes are also selectively harvested.

Banana corms are split apart, like a garlic plant, each corm starting with a single stalk (which then splits into leaves). As far as I know, the young banana leaves are not harvested at the base to use the leaves... but there is a possibility they are pruned so that the energy goes into the main stalk. I haven't had time to look to see if that is actually done with banana plants. If the lower leaves are pruned, then they would match more closely to the VMS plant.