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To: Dead Corpse
The bananas you find in grocery stores are like seedless grapes in that they are a seedless hybrid. Those little brown spots at the center of a banana are where the "wild" variety would have seeds.

Nope. Bananas have never had seeds.

I do know plants and herbs.

Comrey will have seeds, but they won't make a plant.

You have to get plants from the stolens they produce.

Like they do with bananas.

342 posted on 12/20/2001 3:31:26 PM PST by carenot
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To: carenot
Banana used to have seed. Check this site for proof.

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF9/977.html

To explain the concern and the fight to solve it, one must first delve into banana history. Although commonplace today, bananas only became a staple in North America's diet late in the last century. They could do so because of a genetic freak--a spontaneous mutation in a kind of banana native to Southeast Asia.

The new banana was big, sweet, and seedless. (Those little black flecks near the center of a banana are vestigial seeds, mere echoes of the real thing. A full banana seed is big, hard, and neighborly; scores of them stud a seeded banana.) It was a natural triploid, meaning it had three sets of chromosomes instead of the normal two.

343 posted on 12/20/2001 3:40:21 PM PST by LowOiL
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To: carenot
Rare Palm Seeds
The Seed Man
The Banana Tree

And so on and so forth...

350 posted on 12/20/2001 4:34:12 PM PST by Dead Corpse
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To: carenot
Nope. Bananas have never had seeds.

Then what are those little black things arranged in a circle about the center?

371 posted on 12/20/2001 8:16:18 PM PST by Old Professer
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