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U.W.I - St. Augustine Campus Course: FD11B - Academic Writing For Different Disciplines Group: CM4 Credit Assignment# 1: Descriptive Essay - Technical Writing Faculty of Science and Agriculture - School of Natural Sciences The Banana Plant The banana plant (Family Musaceae, Genus Musa) is a tropical member of the Order Zingiberales. It is considered to be a monocotyledonous angiosperm. This means that it is a flowering plant possessing one seed leaf at the embryo stage. The main distinguishing features of the commercial banana plant are its unique growth habits, conspicuous foliage, inflorescence, and its fruits. Banana plants are not trees, since they do not possess a woody plant body. Rather they are large herbs, never becoming woody, and composed of primary tissues derived from the shoot and root apical meristems. The plant possesses a fleshy, succulent, very juicy pseudostem, as its functional stalk or trunk. The trunk is essentially a cylinder of...

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