While doing the dishes, i noticed that our neighbor's banana plant was with flower and fruit leaning heavily on our side of the wall to my pleasure. Nangangapitbahay.
The flower (actually the bracts which hide the rows of flowers) of the banana plant is like a big purple teardrop. In the iconic Darna movie, the sap that drops from the apex of that flower contains the pearl that is said to endow one who swallows it with supernatural powers.
In mother tongue this same flower is called puso ng saging (banana heart). It is more appreciated as a vegetable, being used in many dishes than as a flower to gaze at. Another perspective.
