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Banana plants represent some of the largest herbaceous plants existing in the present, with some reaching up to 9 metres 30 ft in height. The large herb is composed of a modified underground stem rhizome, a false trunk, a network of roots, and a large flower spike. The false trunk is an aggregation of the basal portion of leaf sheathes; it is not until the plant is ready to flower that a true stem grows up through the sheath and droops back down towards the ground. At the end of this stem grows a peduncle with many female flowers protected by large purple-red bracts. The extension of the stem this part called the rachis continues growth downward where a terminal male flower grows