What is the botanical classification of a banana? (MCAER 2020)

✅Explanation: Botanically, a banana is classified as a berry. A berry is a fleshy fruit that develops from a single ovary and has multiple seeds embedded within the flesh.

📌Other Options Explanations:
-Drupe: A fleshy fruit with a single seed enclosed in a hard endocarp, or "stone." Examples include peaches, cherries, and olives.
-Pome: A type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, characterized by a core of several small seeds surrounded by a tough membrane. Examples are apples and pears.
-Hesperidium: A modified berry with a leathery rind and juicy interior, typical of citrus fruits. Examples include oranges, lemons, and limes.
🔑Key Points:: Banana Propagation
-Banana propagation: Bananas are propagated vegetatively because nearly all cultivated varieties are seedless.
-Method of propagation: The principal method of banana propagation is the division of suckers that arise from the base of the main stem or from the underground corm.
-Rhizome: The banana has a reduced underground stem called the rhizome, which bears several buds.
-Suckers: Each of these buds sprouts and forms its own pseudostem and a new bulbous rhizome. These daughter plants are called suckers.
-Good sucker characteristics: Free from insects and leaf mottling, with narrow tapering leaves.
-Family and genus: Banana belongs to the family Musaceae and genus Musa.