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  • From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] seedless bananas
  • Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:47:10 -0700 (PDT)

You may well have eaten the wild plantains. Bananas are not native to South America and the "wild" plantains you saw most likely escaped from cultivation, or were planted by people who travel the rivers frequently.


From: "Jwlehman@aol.com" <Jwlehman@aol.com>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:57:42 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] seedless bananas

In a message dated 4/22/2009 11:26:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mijwiz@yahoo.com writes:

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
.


Thank you very much. Enlightening for sure. Wife and I just returned from a trip on the Amazon River where we had plantains fixed several ways, but mostly roasted. Noticed no seeds and they grow wild along the banks everywhere. We apparently didn't eat those.

Jerry




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