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Where are the seeds on a banana?

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Where are the seeds on a banana?

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  1. while the previos answer was very educational..... the seeds are inside the banana, if you ever look inside, they are those ittybitty brown things in the middle.


  2. But the edible farmed banana has no seeds. So how do we get new bananas? They take cuttings from an existing banana plant.

    New banana "trees" are "born" in a new location when the shoots of cuttings are planted in the ground, and take root successfully.

    The cycle starts with an underground stem (or vigorous root), often metres across, that can have several banana "trees" growing from it. Each of these so-called "trees" started from an underground "bud".

    A "bud" will push up a shoot, which breaks through the soil. The shoot is made of leaves, wrapped tightly around each other, so that it looks like a green tree trunk - even though there is no wood present. The oldest leaves are on the outside, with the newest leaves pushing upward through the middle.

    When the time is right, the underground stem switches from making leaves, to making an "inflorescence", which makes flowers, and subsequently, fruit. The inflorescence has a broad leaf-like structure that wraps around a hand of flowers, which ultimately turn into a hand of bananas. The final "tree" can be up to 6 metres tall, with bunches of 50-150 individual fruits or "fingers" of bananas, broken up into hands of 10-20 bananas each.

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