One man's quest to build an empire brought insufferable work conditions and death to thousands, government exploitation and ...

Botanist Carl Linnaeus gave bananas the scientific name Musa from the Arabic word for banana, muz or musa. Or mauz. They ...

The resilient, native fruit has a cult following and could be small farms’ hedge against climate change in a fast-warming ...

A banana tree in Barangay Apaya, Laoag City has become a local attraction for producing just one, unusually large fruit.

He may never taste the sweet fruit of his trees, but banana plants grow tall and strong for one Victoria man. Marco Gagliani ...

The largest fruit native to North America is one you won't find in supermarkets, but you can find it growing wild if you live ...

While many tips and tricks exist to attract hummingbirds to your yard, one involves minimal effort - and uses a fruit you ...

The cultivar was chosen by the burgeoning banana industry because it produces large, tasty fruit that can be cut from the tree unripe, making it possible to transport a highly perishable ...

If you've never tried one before, they often taste like a combination of mango, pineapple and sometimes banana ... to note that not all pawpaw trees produce fruit. That's because pawpaws spread ...

Avocado-sized with a taste sometimes described as a cross between a mango and banana ... Libbey grows 100 pawpaw trees and said she was surprised to see the fruit dropping from trees in the ...

One man’s “never-ending quest” for the least-known varieties of the world’s most-eaten fruit. Namwa bananas in Hawaii. The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa, is not a tree but ...

Residents of Sarpang, especially farmers are anticipating a boom in agricultural productivity once works to develop the ...