bananas plant grows in warm countries and bears a nourishing fruit popular throughout the world. the banana plant grows from 10 to 25 feet tell, and looks like a tree but it is not a tree because 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 stiff bundle. when each new leaf appears at the top of the stalk, it is rolled tightly like a long green cigar