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Bananas are herbaceous; bamboos are grasses

Деталь несправжнього стебла банана Musa Dwarf Orinoco; листкові основи, не стовбур пальми / Detail of a Musa Dwarf Orinoco banana pseudostem; leaf bases, not a palm trunk. Credit: Iacopo Lorenzini; CC BY-SA 3.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=27851385

Молодий пагін Dendrocalamus giganteus з піхвами; фото пагона не є масштабним вимірюванням висоти конкретного екземпляра / Young Dendrocalamus giganteus shoot with sheaths; the shoot photograph is not a calibrated height measurement. Credit: George Muttathil Pulikurumba; CC BY-SA 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=135396260

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Деталь несправжнього стебла банана Musa Dwarf Orinoco; листкові основи, не стовбур пальми / Detail of a Musa Dwarf Orinoco banana pseudostem; leaf bases, not a palm trunk. Credit: Iacopo Lorenzini; CC BY-SA 3.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=27851385

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A banana is not a palm: its apparent trunk is a pseudostem made of tightly packed leaf sheaths. It is a large herbaceous plant in Musaceae. Bamboos, by contrast, belong to the grass family Poaceae, although many have woody stems. Giant species such as Dendrocalamus giganteus can reach tens of meters; this is not every bamboo’s height, nor does it make bananas members of the grass family.