Banana Tree

Banana Tree

Type	Fruit Tree
Sapling	Banana Sapling
Growth Time	28 days
Season	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley
Fruit	Banana

The Banana Tree is a tropical fruit tree that belongs to the Ginger Island part of the game. Its sapling is traded for, found or earned on the island. Planted on Ginger Island or in the Greenhouse, the tree gives a Banana every day of the year. In the valley it fruits only in Summer. Bananas have the highest base value of any tree fruit, and they also build the Island Obelisk, make Banana Pudding and unlock Golden Walnuts at the Banana Shrine.

Growing

The Island Trader on Ginger Island sells the Banana Sapling in exchange for Dragon Teeth. Cracking open a Golden Coconut can also give one. Clint at the Blacksmith cracks Golden Coconuts open. Completing the Large Animal collection at the Island Field Office rewards a Banana Sapling as well.

The sapling goes into plain ground. Until the Banana Tree is grown, the eight tiles around it must stay free of objects, paths and flooring. Two fruit trees cannot share that space, so each needs at least two empty tiles between it and its neighbour. If something blocks the space, the sapling does not grow that night.

The sapling passes through four stages and reaches full size after four weeks, the same as every other fruit tree. It grows in any season.

Where the tree stands decides how much it gives. On the Ginger Island farm, a grown Banana Tree fruits every day all year. The Greenhouse does the same. On the main farm outside, the tree fruits only in Summer. For that reason, most Banana Trees belong on the island or in the Greenhouse.

Once the tree is fully grown, the space around it is free again. Paths and other objects can then go right next to it.

The Bananas improve with the tree's age. One year after maturing, the tree gives silver-quality fruit. After two years it gives gold, and after three years every Banana is iridium.

A fruit tree cannot be picked up and moved. Chopping it down with an Axe gives wood and a Banana Sapling of the same quality as the fruit. A higher-quality sapling grows to full size faster when replanted.

Lightning can strike a fruit tree during a storm. A struck tree gives Coal instead of fruit for four days, then recovers on its own.

Fruit

A Banana is worth more than any other tree fruit. A tree on Ginger Island gives one every day without a break between seasons. That makes the Banana Tree one of the best late-game earners on the island farm.

A Keg turns each Banana into Banana Wine, worth three times the raw fruit. That is slightly more than Pomegranate Wine, the best wine from the valley trees. A Preserves Jar makes Banana Jelly, which is ready much sooner but is worth less. The Artisan profession adds forty percent to both. Kegs and Preserves Jars ignore fruit quality, so normal-quality Bananas are the ones to process.

Building the Island Obelisk needs Bananas. The obelisk warps the farmer straight to Ginger Island. A Banana Tree is the dependable way to collect the fruit it needs.

Cooking a Banana with Milk and Sugar makes Banana Pudding. The Island Trader sells the recipe in exchange for Bone Fragments. The pudding gives a buff to Mining, Luck and Defense.

Placing a Banana on the Banana Shrine on Ginger Island makes a gorilla appear. In return, it gives three Golden Walnuts.

A Blue Discus in a Fish Pond sometimes produces a Banana once the pond has a few fish. The tree is still the far faster way to get them.

Notes

Plant the first Banana Sapling on Ginger Island or in the Greenhouse. There it gives fruit every day, instead of only in Summer.

Early Bananas are best saved for the Island Obelisk and the Banana Shrine. Once those are done, the fruit can go to Kegs or to market.

All Fruit Trees

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Season	Fruit
Apple Tree	Fall	Apple
Apricot Tree	Spring	Apricot
Banana Tree	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	Banana
Cherry Tree	Spring	Cherry
Mango Tree	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	Mango
Orange Tree	Summer	Orange
Peach Tree	Summer	Peach
Pomegranate Tree	Fall	Pomegranate