I was surprised finding banana seeds in a garden shop. Where are they found?

Question

I have never observed banana seeds. Not even letting the bananas in the plant after they are ripe.
By experience I know that banana plants are multiplied by taking the newborn plantlets that multiply near the roots of the "mother" and planting them somewhere else. Banana plants fructify only once. They are usually cut after harvest. Then one of the "sons" takes the place of the removed one.
That is the case also for the "bread fruit" tree. No seeds in the fruit. Same procedure: "sons" are removed to multiply the plants.

Answer 1

Plants of the species Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana are called bananas. Domestic bananas which are hybrids, do not have seeds which are fertile and will grow new plants. They are usually propagagted by means of suckers.

Some varieties, however, to have flowers and prodice fuits with seeds. These do tend to be classified as plaintains or wild bananas and not as bananas.

Wild types may be nearly filled with black, hard, rounded or angled seeds 1/8 to 5/8 in (3-16 mm) wide and have scant flesh. The common cultivated types are generally seedless with just minute vestiges of ovules visible as brown specks in the slightly hollow or faintly pithy center, especially when the fruit is overripe. Occasionally, cross-pollination by wild types will result in a number of seeds in a normally seedless variety.

Answer 2

You are totally right in the way banana tree and bread fruit tree reproduce it selves. Also the plantain tree does the same. I still remember that my grandfather had kind of farm and part of it was for the growing of bananas and plantain trees. He use to awake very early in the morning to spread the bananas and plantain "seeds", in the way you described above, then those were taken away to be cleaned to avoid pests, once the "seeds"were cleaned then they were taken and seed in a new soil my grandfather had ready from the day before. Thank you for bringing me those remembers. If you are an Islander and never had seed banana, plantain or bread fruit you aren't an Islander. Plantains, bananas and bread fruit are very estimated in Puerto Rico.

P.S.

I have eaten wild bananas and plantains many times and I've never seen seeds in any of them, actually I grew up eating so. I'm almost 40 years old. The newborn plantlets it's what we call "seed".

Answer 3

Eating bananas are inded propagated the way you describe.

If this shop you visited actually sells genuine seeds of bananas, they will grow to produce bananas with seeds in a fruit that you may not be able to eat. Did you see the seeds? Banana seeds are very hard and about 2 to 3 tenths of an inch across. Unlike one of the other posters, I have seen plantain-like cooking bananas with a few seeds in them ... you could break a tooth on one ... That was in the Philippines.

Answer 4

Wild banana plants have seeds. Cultivated bananas do not. I'm not sure when or how bananas were first developed without seeds. Occasionally a banana does turn up with a little seed due to cross-pollination. I got one once years ago. The seed was tiny and probably couldn't have produced a plant but it was there, between my teeth.

Answer 5

The bananas that one buys in the grocery stores or produce shops have no seeds in them, but if you were to go to places like Africa, where they are referred to as Plantains, and are most often eaten while still green, they do indeed have seeds.

Answer 6

it somewhat is totally not likely i might see a goat around right here. If I lived someplace a stray goat ought to wander, i might ask my teenagers (if I had any) approximately it. i might additionally make some calls and notice if all people has misplaced a goat. If it seems no person owns it or the landlord says we are able to shop it, i might ask if there are any universal or suspected illnesses or ailments. If there is not something extraordinarily incorrect with the goat, i might enable my teenagers shop it. Why not? :o)

Answer 7

I believe the y are the tiny lumps inside the banana. Very soft and eaten with the fruit so you don't even know they are there

Answer 8

I think they're found in a garden shop.