Ice cream banana trees: They grow to 8 feet tall with blue/green leaves that yield about 15 to 20-pound heads. They’re sweeter than the apple banana. Some folks say it tastes like vanilla ice cream.

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After an 18-year absence, Southern California-grown bananas have returned to the Santa Monica farmers market.

First, that the yellow banana is not a fruit (because it has no seeds), and second, that it comes from a tree (the banana tree). There are close to 1,000 species of banana today.