Why the *&&$#@&?!#$@? would raccoons do this to a banana plant??? It doesn’t look like they were eating the leaves, but maybe I guess. They sure threw a bunch of shredded leaves from that and the other plants around the pond into the water. Maybe making some goldfish and banana leaf soup and couldn’t figure how to heat it up?
They didn’t touch the other bananas in the yard. Here’s another of the same type (Helen’s hybrid seedlings), which is basically what the other one looked like yesterday: