The Banana Islands lie south west of the Freetown Peninsula in Sierra Leone. The two main islands, Dublin Island and Ricketts Island, are linked by a causeway and are known for Dublin Island's beaches and Ricketts Island's forests. Mes-Meheux is the third, uninhabited island. In modern usage, a causeway is a road elevated by a bank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. ... 90 mile beach Australia A beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, cobble, or even shell along the shoreline of a body of water. ... Jump to: navigation, search A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded area set aside for hunting). ...
The Wild Banana Orchid is an epiphyte, which means that it grows on another plant, but does not harm it in the way a parasitic plant would.
Wild Banana Orchids are particularly abundant in humid conditions, such as in woodlands downwind of ponds and wetlands.
If you would like to see the Wild Banana Orchid in its native habitat, they are carefully protected and easily seen in the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, along the Mastic Trail and on the nature trail in the Brac Parrot Reserve.
Bananas are crucial to the former British colonies of the Windward Islands, but these tiny Caribbean communities face economic ruin from changes in world trade laws and rival suppliers targeting UK supermarkets with inferior, cut-price produce.
The bananas we are sold have that farinaceous texture and neutral flavour because they have not been transported on the bunch, ripened instead with ethylene gas so their starch has not broken down into sugar.
The majority of banana growers in the Windward Islands are not native people like the Bruneys, but the descendants of slaves, brutally uprooted from Africa by their colonial masters then put to work growing a series of profitable crops.
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