Banana Tree Flower


Banana Flower
Originally uploaded by PJBee

My friend cut off this amazing banana tree flower/fruit/heart for me to sketch. It’s another of nature’s architectural wonders.

The bananas are not edible from this particular plant and they are only about 3″ long. I put this wonder on top of my dryer in the laundry room until I had time to sketch it. There was a peculiar oder for a few days the cut stem leaked a bit of sticky liquid.

I used a micron pen and wc pencils in my small Moleskine.

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