• Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Did a banana plant kill your family or something? This is the silliest hill to die on I’ve ever seen.

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      1 year ago

      They could have said something like, “A banana tree has a large herbaceous-modified corm,” but it didn’t. It was unclear.

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        1 year ago

        It said it was a herb because in botanical terms it’s a herb. That’s not unclear. Even if you confuse it with the culinary term, all you have to do is google “herb definition” and the one of the two definitions provided is:

        any seed-bearing plant that does not have a woody stem and dies down to the ground after flowering.

        And the example given is:

        “the banana plant is the world’s largest herb”