When Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician, was classifying organisms

He recalled a story about Alexander the Great seeing wise men sitting under banana trees and eating their fruit.



So he named the banana tree (plant, perhaps) “musa sapientum”, muse of the wise.



Fortunately, we don’t need to be wise to eat bananas or sit under banana trees.



Perhaps we will grow wise by eating them: I certainly hope so!

I very much hope so!