not really, a stem does so only once, as long as new ones grow from the rhizome the tree* will keep on feeding you.
source: have a dozen banana trees* in our yard.
*it's not a tree (it's technically a herb).
source: have a dozen banana trees* in our yard.
*it's not a tree (it's technically a herb).
The only thing from my trees that will fruit year round is coconuts, and that's really more of a flavoring than a food. We give it to the ducks though and they like it.
I guess I now know where the interior fruit went to, and why it is so notoriously slippery.