Banana Beacon

Banana Beacon is a premium plant that temporarily boosts plants in a 5x5 range when tapped on. It increases fire rate, sun rate, explosion range, defense, health, and range when boosting the plants around it. It can manage to stay on for 20 seconds before turning off. It takes 30 seconds to recharge, and you cannot have more than two Banana Beacons on the lawn. When eaten, a banana slip will spawn where the Banana Beacon was eaten and deals 5nds to the zombie that slips on it.

Almanac Entry
Sun Cost: 625

AREA: 5x5

RANGE: Tapped

RECHARGE: Slow

Banana Beacons temporarily boosts plants in an area with it's calming beacon sound. Also leaving a banana slip on where it was eaten.

Usage: When tapped on, recharges for a bit

Special: Temporarily boosts plants and leaves a banana slip when eaten

Banana Beacon owns a radio tower, and it's bananas!

Plant Food effect
When fed with plant food, it turns purple and it's range increases to the whole lawn, also throwing three banana slips in random lanes. Even triples it's boost when tapped (one time use only). And using Plant Food also resets it's recharge duration.

Strategies
Banana Beacons is an awesome plant to have in your zombie-weeding arsenal, because they can boosts plants in a 5x5 range temporarily, plants will become stronger during the duration of the boost. Instant use plants can explode/freeze/slow with a bigger area if they are in the range of Banana Beacon, attacking and offensive plants' strength, fire rate, and range are increased. (Plants that attacks in one lane can now attack both one lane and in a 3x3 range, and plants that attacks with different ranges attack in different ways now like Threepeater, which attacks in a 5x5 range but still shoots three peas, it just shoots far.) Sun producing plants produce suns faster, though increase in range doesn't do anything (except plants that can both produce sun and shoot). Defensive plants simply has an increase in health when they're in the range of a Banana Beacon. Healing plants heals twice as fast and in a big area too.

They also excel after being eaten, because they leave a banana slip when eaten. The banana slip deals 5nds when a zombie slips on it. Much like Banana-pult.

It is recommended to pair this up with a defensive plant of any kind, like Pumpkin, Wall-nut, Tall-nut, etc.

It is also recommended to be used in big waves of zombies or a sun-buster level.

Trivia

 * Banana Beacon was inspired by the Monkey Beacon from Bloons Tower Defense.
 * It was also inspired by the plant, Banana-pult.
 * The body of the plant was found through Google.