[NAFEX] seedless bananas

Melissa Kacalanos mijwiz at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 22 11:26:09 EDT 2009


A google image search finds pictures of banana seeds like this:
http://www.apsnet.org/education/feature/banana/Images/figure4.htm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Inside_a_wild-type_banana.jpg

That last one looks under-ripe. I broke open an ornamental banana in a garden in Mexico, and it had unmistakable black seeds.

Melissa



Actually, those little dots are just aborted ovules, that would not sprout if you planted them. That's because commercial bananas are triploid, thus sterile. Their diploid and tetraploid parents have big obvious seeds.



Melissa



Thank you Melissa. I've just learned something. What does a real banana seed look like? Any pictures? 



Jerry



      
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