Bananas first grew in South East Asia, where Cambodia is.  The word banana means "finger fruit", from the Arabic banan.  Banana "trees" aren't really trees - banana plants are the largest herbs in the world! 

This is Eleanor and Abigail with one of the banana trees in their yard:

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            Can you get bunches that big in your supermarket? ;-)

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