The banana plant grows in warm countries and bears a nourishing fruit popular throughout the world. The banana plant grows from 10 to 25 feet tall, and looks like a tree. But it is not a tree, because it has no woody trunk. It has what looks like a trunk, sometimes as much as I foot thick at the bottom. This is made up of the long leafstalks of the plant which are wrapped tightly together in a long stiff bundle. When each new leaf appears at the top of the stalk, it is rolled tightly like a long green cigar. It unrolls as it grows, and finally comes to look like a great drooping feather, from 1 to 2 feet wide and from 6 to 10 feet long. Each new leaf makes the stalk of the plant grow taller.