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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-17-09 06:14 PM
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1. Banana trees look like trees,
so they're trees, as far as I'm concerned.

Same with pineapples.

Relax, kid....................
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  -Did anyone else not know that bananas and pineapples are not grown on trees. ccharles000  Jul-17-09 06:06 PM   #0 
  - Banana trees look like trees,  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-17-09 06:14 PM   #1 
  - Wait a minute, I saw pineapples growing in Hawaii  Lydia Leftcoast   Jul-17-09 06:15 PM   #2 
  - Trees grow out of the ground too  Xipe Totec   Jul-17-09 06:18 PM   #5 
  - Trees grow out of the ground too  Xipe Totec   Jul-17-09 06:18 PM   #6 
  - This is a pineapple plant -  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-17-09 06:19 PM   #7 
     - that looks like a date palm to me  Kali   Jul-17-09 06:33 PM   #11 
  - Bananas are overgrown lilies  Xipe Totec   Jul-17-09 06:16 PM   #3 
  - They taste better, though -  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-17-09 06:23 PM   #9 
     - The flowers are edible too!  Xipe Totec   Jul-17-09 06:32 PM   #10 
  - I agree.  Kali   Jul-17-09 06:17 PM   #4 
     - We had a banana tree in our backyard  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-17-09 06:23 PM   #8 
  - I've seen Banana trees. I've stolen their fruit from my neighbor in Mexico!  pink-o   Jul-17-09 06:53 PM   #12 
  - I've heard that money doesn't grow on trees, either...  zanne   Jul-17-09 08:10 PM   #13 
  - Pineapple is a bromeliad.  Manifestor_of_Light   Jul-17-09 11:36 PM   #14 
  - I've done that, and one I had in a small apartment got to be...  TreasonousBastard   Jul-17-09 11:40 PM   #15 
  - Also peanuts are not nuts, they are legumes.  Lex   Jul-17-09 11:48 PM   #16 
 

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