My apologies sir. Upon reflection, I realised I had responded to the stupid question with a flippant answer without questioning my assumptions.

I therefore ventured out into the Costa Rican wilderness to challenge my assumptions in an endeavour to verify the origins of bananas. Whilst I can confirm they appear to grow on plants (picture 1), I asked a local resident (picture 2) whether the plant root base was actually a pineapple. He did not appear to speak English although I got the impression he might have been answering the wrong question as it sounded like “keep nostr weird”