Why are bananas seedless although they are fruits of a flowering plant?

Answer 1

While the original bananas contained rather large seeds, triploid (and thus seedless) cultivars have been selected for human consumption. These are propagated asexually from offshoots of the plant. The plant is allowed to produce 2 shoots at a time; a larger one for fruiting immediately and a smaller "sucker" or "follower" that will produce fruit in 6–8 months time. The life of a banana plantation is 25 years or longer, during which time the individual stools or planting sites may move slightly from their original positions as lateral rhizome formation dictates. Latin Americans sometimes comment that the plants are "walking" over time.

Cultivated bananas are sterile (parthenocarpic), meaning that they do not produce viable seeds. Lacking seeds, another form of propagation is required. This involves removing and transplanting part of the underground stem (called a corm). Usually this is done by carefully removing a sucker (a vertical shoot that develops from the base of the banana pseudostem) with some roots intact. However, small sympodial corms, representing not yet elongated suckers, are harder to transplant and can be left out of the ground for up to 2 weeks; they require minimal care and can be boxed together for shipment.

Answer 2

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.

I hope that clears everything up about this appealing fruit!

Answer 3

Bananas are not seedless. They do contain seeds in the middle of the banana that are useless for producing plants. Bananas grow by suckers.

Which are a root that pops up out of the ground off an adult banana tree and then the farmer seperates the sucker off the plant and replants it elsewhere which grows to become an adult banana plant and the cycle starts again.

The fruit is part of the flower. When the banana plant flowers the bell opens up revealing miniature black or green bananas that grow over time to become the bananas we know. They eventually ripen to a bright yellow colour.

Cheers

Answer 4

I remember hearing on the news earlier this year, or was it last year, that bananas are infertile and cannot produce seeds or new plants. The situation is so bad that all the big banana growers are all really worried about where they're going to get new plants from as the older ones are dying off.

Having said that, the ones they have now must have come from somewhere, but where ??!

Answer 5

Why Are Bananas Seedless

Answer 6

VERY interesting question. Once upon a time the banana did have seeds. If you look very carefully, that little star you see in the middle is what is left of them. It took thousands of years to breed the seeds out of bananas. Now they have to be grown from cuttings, or what have you. They have to be cultivated. But the most interesting thing is that, according to mainstream science, agriculture hasn't been around long enough for this to have happened naturally. It would have had to have been an intentional genetic manipulation.

Answer 7

Who say bananas is seedless? Their seed is the black one inside. Only we dont use to seed to plant it.

Answer 8

I have a banana tree in my back yard and I have never seen a flower. Only bananas. So how can it be a flowering plant?

Answer 9

In every banana there are seed; and in the wild varieties there are big sized seed; but those do not grow into a tree.

Answer 10

Those little black things inside the banana are the seeds.