Mike Lyle wrote:
Dwayne wrote:
That is correct. I have cut down about 4 myself while living in
Puerto Rico. The "trunks" were more like a stringy cabbage head only
longer and stronger. It took about 3 times with a machete to cut
them down. I should have said banana plants, not trees.
[...]

My father recalled harvesting some bananas in New Guinea during the
War by simply driving a Jeep at the "trunk".

Ah! But....

Normal banana "trunks" are not trunks at all....

..... but the flowering & fruiting occurs on a true stem which grows from the
basal corm up through the pseudostem of leaf bases....

....so, harvesting by driving at the trunk does not require the ".."!

pk