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