Uses. Nonfood uses

Because fruits have been such a major part of the human diet, different cultures have developed many different uses for various fruits that they do not depend on as being edible. Many dry fruits are used as decorations or in dried flower arrangements, such as unicorn plant, lotus, wheat, annual honesty and milkweed. Ornamental trees and shrubs are often cultivated for their colorful fruits, including holly, pyracantha, viburnum, skimmia, beautyberry and cotoneaster.

Fruits of opium poppy are the source of the drugs opium and morphine. Osage orange fruits are used to repel cockroaches. Bayberry fruits provide a wax often used to make candles. Many fruits provide natural dyes, e.g. walnut, sumac, cherry and mulberry. Dried gourds are used as decorations, water jugs, bird houses, musical instruments, cups and dishes. Pumpkins are carved into Jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween. The spiny fruit of burdock or cocklebur were the inspiration for the invention of Velcro.

Coir is a fiber from the fruit of coconut that is used for doormats, brushes, mattresses, floortiles, sacking, insulation and as a growing medium for container plants. The shell of the coconut fruit is used to make souvenir heads, cups, bowls, musical instruments and bird houses.

Banana:

Banana is the common name for a fruit and also the herbaceous plants of the genus Musa which produce the commonly eaten fruit - The banana plant is a pseudostem that grows to 6 to 7.6 metres (20-25 feet) tall, growing from a corm - Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple and red - Bananas and plantains constitute a major staple food crop for millions of people in developing countries - The domestication of bananas took place in southeastern Asia. Many species of wild bananas still occur in New Guinea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Apple:

The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family Rosaceae - The wild ancestor of Malus domestica is Malus sieversii - There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples - Like most perennial fruits, apples ordinarily propagate asexually by grafting - Apples are self-incompatible; they must cross-pollinate to develop fruit.

Vegetable:

Many root and non-root vegetables that grow underground can be stored through winter in a root cellar or other similarly cool, dark and dry place to prevent mold, greening and sprouting - Kai-lan, Bok choy, Komatsuna - Amaranth, Bitterleaf, Catsear - Malabar gourd, Marrow, Parwal - Guar, Horse gram, Indian pea