The bananas 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.