Open flower of the banana Bashny.Net

There, beyond the creek, the road going through the plantation Pandanaceae - ground, and here, on a banana - with paved.
Apparently, bananas, as crop here is important.





At the entrance to the "banana paradise" concrete hut, which was completely empty.



Bananas here look quite different, as we are accustomed to see them in our supermarkets. Here fruits have a square cross-section, not round.
They grow on low trees downright huge heavy bunches.



Itself is a bunch, in fact, a huge flower at the base of which begin to form fruit.
The flower grows down on the long sveshivayas hobotoobraznom appendage.



At some point, the formation of the fruit, cut off some of the flower bunch. If you do not, it will consume a lot of nutrients from the tree and the fruit will not gain the necessary volume and will have certain consumer properties.
It looks like an open flower banana



After the flower cut down fruit while developing, gaining weight and volume, and then ...



... They put on a huge plastic bag.
He needed to on ripening fruit is not a drop of rain fell, otherwise spoiled bananas before they will cut off.



So they are growing in plastic bags, eleven weeks. Prior to full ripeness of bananas not adjusted because here they were taken in different parts of the world, besides the fruit during transport and even shrink.



On the plantation somewhere bananas already under sacks, somewhere still gaining volume, and somewhere just maturing flower ...



And then, for a banana plantation, mango plantation starts.
And here are absolutely the same story with the degree of maturity of fruit. On some trees, they are small and only just beginning to take shape in the usual form, on some almost ripe, and some of their just collected.
The thing is that the climate here in Hainan, such that many cultures fruit almost in a continuous loop without interruption for the winter season and ...



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