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p.k. wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
[...]
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
".."!

This could turn into a thread worthy of alt.usage.english, so I won't
say more than "Hmm..."!

Especially as (IIRC) bananas are a grass - or closely related - and
AFAIK only heffalump grass has trunks...

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Rusty
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