[Sca-cooks] bananas are herbs?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Terry Decker:
>  >> Now, you being Stefan, and immediately about to launch into a series
>>>  of questions on why rosemary is considered an herb and not a
>>>  coniferous "tree",
>>
>>Rosemary is a woody shrub and doesn't bear cones. :)
>>
>>
>>-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>
>As I recall, rosemary isn't a woody shrub, its a herbaceous shrub, while
>conifers tend to be woody and cone bearing.  Conifers and rosemary are both
>evergreens,  but the conifers are gymnosperms while the rosemary is an
>angiosperm.
>
>Bear

All I know is, and this was my point, is that rosemary survives the 
winter in my area, has bark on its thicker stems, which are woody, 
rather than being green, juicy, and semi-fibrous, so by at least one 
definition of "herb", rosemary ain't one.

Adamantius