Is a banana a fruit or a herb?

Actually, no. Although fully matured bananas do contain seeds, the stem of the plant is herbaceous, rather than woody, so it is therefore classified as an herb. Kinda like apples are really members of the rose family, peaches (or was it apricots?) are members of the almond family, and tomatoes and cucumbers are of course fruits. Blessed Be

Hi there. Well Ive always thought of a banana as being a fruit, never thought of it being a herb, so what do think it is?

A banana (the yellow thing you peel and eat) is undoubtedly a fruit (containing the seeds of the plant: see answer regarding tomatoes), though since commercially grown banana plants are sterile, the seeds are reduced to little specks. However, the banana plant, though it is called a 'banana-tree' in popular usage, is technically regarded as a herbaceous plant (or 'herb'), not a tree, because the stem does not contain true woody tissue.

I am sure banana is a fruit.

The Banana family (Musaceae Juss.) includes 6 genera and about 130 species of large herbs, sometimes tree-like in appearance, and with what appear to be unbranched aerial stems formed by the leaf-sheaths. The flowers come in racemes, gnerally hermaphroditic or unisexual, andzygomorphic. The fruit (botanically speaking) is a 3-celled capsule or an elongated berry, with seeds on arils (wee stalks). In other words, the Banana plant is an herb. It bears fruit (in the botanical sense), but so do a great many (most?) other plants of no particular relation--because in this sense a fruit is simply a matured ovary with seeds enclosed. However, in the gastronomical sense, the fruit of the Banana plant is a fruit, not a vegetable. Source: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/plantbio/1995-March/005710.html

Bananas are definatley a fruit.