Banana flowers are also known as Banana Blossom, and used widely throughout Asia as a culinary ingredient. Our bananas have nearly finished flowering, and the bananas will ripen during winter.
banana flower with bird
close up of male flowers between the bracts
The inner pale bracts are used for cooking, and the outer bracts may be used as a serving bowl for salads. Of course we just leave them all on the tree to ripen, since we enjoy our sugar bananas so much!
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heartfelt images 
Great entry my friend truly amazing what banana tree can do. 🙂
Interesting as I have never seen a banana tree flowering. Thanks for sharing 🙂
How interesting! I like the bird, too.
thank you fergiemoto, i neglected to say the bird is a Little Wattlebird, noisy and funny!
Ah thanks, I remember banana flowers in Marrakech, just stunning!
now that is somewhere i have not been!!!
Aren’t these impressive…wow
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hi Christine,
you caught the litlle bird very well!
That closeup of the flowers between bracts is superb:)