The Biggest Herb on Earth is… a Banana?!

When you think of herbs, you might picture rosemary, basil, or dill weed, but you can add something a bit bigger than that to your mental herb collection: good ol’ bananas.

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Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4114778.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af5a67daebc01610164e3153768958de0&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://www.promusa.org/Morphology+of+banana+plant
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11241

Xylem and phloem

https://biologydictionary.net/herbaceous/