Everyone knows bananas are a fruit. But unlike apples and oranges, they don't grow on trees! Banana plants look like they have a trunk, but it's really densely packed leaves holding up a huge plant-and bunches of bananas. Young readers will love learning the truth about banana plants, including that they don't grow from seeds but a piece of another banana plant. Colorful photographs take kids right to banana farms as this plant grows and produces a favorite fruit!.