if a bannana is a fruit ,there where are the seeds?

Question

my daughter whose 10 asked me this, and i thought well she has a point where are the seeds.

its grown from something but i didnt know what to tell her lol

Answer 1

A fruit is the ripened ovary of a plant, and it holds the plant's seeds. Fruits grow from a plant's flowers, and bananas do all of these things! Banana plants have flowering stems, and when the flowers mature, the ovaries inside them become bananas. In some types of banana, you can see very tiny seeds right in the center of the fruit. But many of the bananas you get at the grocery store are purposefully made to be seedless. Specialty stores sell banana seeds so you can grow your own plants. Banana plantations grow new plants by taking a fleshy bulb called a rhizome or a sucker off an old plant, and then planting the rhizome. I hope that clears everything up about this appealing fruit!

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Answer 2

After WW2 a new breed of banana was bred in the Carribean without seeds. As Britain had done without bananas for some years due to rationing (they were not reintroduced until 1952) and they were the most popular fruit pre WW2, growers thought it was time to update the fruit. The seeds were unpopular - after all, we now get oranges without pips. The trees that grow bananas take 3 years to mature (instead of the usual 1 year for most fruit and veg) and a stump is left of the tree where the farmer cuts it so the tree can grow for a further 3 years and give more bananas.

Answer 3

WHEN U open up the bannana theres like really little brown dots in the middle of the bannana after u take a bite and in the forest when none of the animals don't eat the bannana's the bannana's fall to the grown and when they get rotten the seeds are still in there and when it rains and when nature happens the bannana grows a bannana tree

Answer 4

I saw a nature show a few years back which said the bananas have had the seeds bred out of them. All the banana plants today are grown from cuttings. They also said this is a problem which will catch up sooner or later because they can only reproduce them from cuttings for a limited amount of time. This means, at same point, bananas will die out from age and they won't be able to replace them.

Answer 5

I thought that the bannana fruit flowered on the tip and the seeds are there to drop off, but then their would be no point for a fruit lol

Answer 6

The seeds are in the huge flower that appears before the fruit and can be as large as a one pound coin.Hope this helps! Ive grown the houseplant variety many times but obviously will not get any fruit.

Answer 7

If you open a green banana which are easier to, you will see little tiny seeds. But not all the time they use those seed to grown the trees, the tree itself grow little tiny banana tree. In one plant, many can grow at the same time.

But tell her to trust you.. It is a fruit.

Answer 8

The seeds are the dark spots in the center of the banana. It is grown as a tree.

Answer 9

look at a cross section of a banana slice. the seeds are in a circle and very small.

Answer 10

i guess that the part we eat is the seed...
i knew that small banana trees grow beside any big banana tree(father) and take their food from the father food till the father will die at the end and the sons will be adult trees. so they call the banana father killer....