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How long does a banana tree live?
Banana trees are treelike in appearance, but they are not trees at all. The plants are herbaceous perennials, and as such, they do not live as long as most trees.
It takes between nine and 12 months for a banana plant to produce a flower after being planted, and it takes another two to three months for the bananas to ripen after that. Once this cycle is completed, the mother plant dies. For this reason, it may be said that on average, according to the growth cycle, a banana plant lives for 13 months. However, the mother plant, while producing bananas, is also producing tiny baby plants that grow around the base of the main plant.


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