bananas are also a grass
poaceae
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Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bananas are a berry, palms are kinda a grass, and large swath of grains are grasses.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
What kind of fruit a plant develops is something entirely different to what a grass is though. And these are all taxonomically different groups (palms, bananas and grasses).
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
At least both Musaceae (Bananas) and Poaceae (Grasses) are both monocots. But that’s where their taxonomic proximity ends. They are not even in the same order (Zingiberales vs Poales)…
Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
your username is fitting
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
What?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Palms trees are technically grass, AFAIK.
We figured this out in florida because targeted yard “weed spray” kills them, too.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Your plain wrong. Poaceae does not contain muss.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I mean… what if they would create gut bacteria that enables us to eat literal green grass and leaves? I’d like that with my leaf Wellington.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Then you’d spend 20 hours a day chewing grass, i guess
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Have you ever tried grass or not-bred-for-eating-leaves? I think they taste awful.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes we vegans eat all those various types of grass.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And non-vegans
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Quinoa! Oh wait, nobody eats that.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Weed is grass?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s all grasses, lilies or watercabbage.
Bubs@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean, sure, those are all grasses, but no one is really eating the grass part of them. Unless they’re doing something more specific like ethnic or cultural food, the average person isn’t gonna be eating the leaves of these.
Sure you can gnaw on sugar cane. I can see corn husks being eaten in some dishes. lemon grass I don’t really know about beside being used to add flavor in stuff like grilling.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean you aren’t eating the stem of an apple tree or the bones of a cow either.
tdawg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The bones are for soup
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jest, gelatin is the bones.
So are many soup stocks
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sure, but they also don’t call eating an apple “eating trees”. it would still be fair to call applewood based products “beaver food” or “cardboard” if someone told you to eat it.