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[-] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago

You ever think about how corn is just really tall grass.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago

Banana is Grass.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago

Wheat, rice, barley, rye, corn, millet... Even bamboo is grass!

Well done grass. You really won this round.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We thought we were the ones domesticating grass when we invented agriculture, but the grass isn't the one that changed how it lives

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Upvote because the thought of rolling fields of bananas made me happy.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know if you knew this but the banana tree isn't a tree, but actually some kind of giant grass. So a field of bananas trees is technically a field of grass.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No. While corn truly is in the Poaceae, bananas are in the Musaceae. They are not even in the Poales! They are in fact more closely related to ginger and bird of paradise plants (all in the Zingiberales).

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