Speaking of non-native plants...
Southern Louisiana's climate is subtropical, and bananas are sometimes used in landscaping. (People sometimes harvest fruit as well, but as the LSU Ag Center notes, "Most Louisiana bananas are selected for landscape appeal and cold hardiness and not for fruit; harvested fruit from landscape bananas may be sweet or starchy, depending on the variety, which is seldom known.") This "tree" decorated—and eventually outlasted—an auto-body shop. In contrast to water hyacinth, though, bananas rarely if ever become invasive here—subtropical is just too cool for them to grow out of control.
[The inflorescence, or "banana heart", from which the fruits develop.]
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