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[Loud Whispers]

Are those your banana trees? Also I swear banana trees suffer from serious lack of genetic diversity

[Rose]

Are those your banana trees? Also I swear banana trees suffer from serious lack of genetic diversity

Only western bananas.

Around here there's loads of different varieties.

[Imic]

I love oak trees. Or goat willow. I live in an area where if you leave land empty for a year or two, it'll be covered in goat willow so much that you can't build a house there anymore and your neighbors will have to live with a tiny forest in between them and the village square because cows can't fit between the trees. Also kids play there.

[Maximum Spin]

I love oak trees. Or goat willow. I live in an area where if you leave land empty for a year or two, it'll be covered in goat willow so much that you can't build a house there anymore and your neighbors will have to live with a tiny forest in between them and the village square because cows can't fit between the trees. Also kids play there.

Where I live is like that, but with poplar. And once they colonise, it only takes a few more years before the other tree types start showing up. This is actually one of those areas that have leaf tourism in Autumn. Which seems so perfectly silly to me but I guess people who live in cities have to take what they can get.

[Bumber]

Are those your banana trees? Also I swear banana trees suffer from serious lack of genetic diversity

No, the picture is from Wikipedia.

Banana trees aren't technically trees, and therefore bananas are berries. Mind = blown.

[Maximum Spin]

Banana trees aren't technically trees, and therefore bananas are berries. Mind = blown.

While both halves of this statement are true, the implied causation is not! Many berries grow on trees, such as coffee, avocado, persimmon (in fact, a kind of ebony), and one ironically called the "strawberry tree" – while strawberries themselves are not actually botanically considered berries.

[Trekkin]

I swear banana trees suffer from serious lack of genetic diversity

That's vegetative parthenocarpy for you, and it is serious both in scope and in the potential for another variety of Panama disease to destroy the Cavendish banana as it did the Gros Michel.