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Article: Bananas in Sunnyvale? And in other Bay Area "banana belts".
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- Article date:
- May 1, 1986
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Bananas in Sunnyvale? And in other Bay Area "banana belts'
Fruiting banana plants in northern California? Yes, you can grow them if you live in the mildest areas. In July 1984, we asked Sunset readers in northern California to let us know if they were growing bananas successfully. Soon we heard of bananas in Santa Rosa, Davis, Oakland, Burlingame, Los Altos, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Los Gatos, and other cities in and near the Bay Area.
True jungle plants, bananas (Musa) are actually large herbs that produce fleshy stalks from underground corms (enlarged underground stems). Each stalk grows vigorously for at least eight months, bears fruit, and then dies. ...