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If they don't, what do you plant to grow a banana tree?

2007-01-18 13:57:05 · 31 answers · asked by jack 1 in Food & Drink Other - Food & Drink

31 answers

Yes, they do. Try peeling a banana, pinch the top off, stick your finger in the middle and watch the banana split into three slender sections. In there, you will see the seeds.

2007-01-18 14:04:26 · answer #1 · answered by T's CRM SCNE 3 · 0 0

The banana grows from the root of the mother tree and once the mother tree has given the yield, it is cut, leaving the younger one to grow. There will be more than one from the root simultaneously. However fruits have seed like but does not serve the purpose of a seed.
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2007-01-18 22:02:21 · answer #2 · answered by sarayu 7 · 0 0

Yes, bananas have seeds, but they are not viable. If you want a banana plant, you have to get a portion of the banana tree root, and allow it to grow.

2007-01-18 22:02:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes. And they are really big when they are natural. But now farmers have figured out how to make them seedless. Which makes the seed very small. This is also true with seedless watermelons and grapes. But all fruits originaly grew with seeds from a seed. Also bananas have to be gassed to be eaten or they won't turn yellow. They will stay green and rot.

2007-01-18 22:07:16 · answer #4 · answered by Nate 2 · 0 0

Yes. . .that's what makes them clasified as a fruit. The seeds are the small circular black dots in a circle around the center of the banana going all the way down.

2007-01-18 21:59:39 · answer #5 · answered by Isabela 5 · 1 0

Yes, they do inside the banana flesh you eat. You may be able to just stick the banana in the ground and have it sprout... but I doubt it. I think commercially cuttings are made form a healthy "mother" plant to make "babies."

2007-01-18 22:34:53 · answer #6 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0 0

depends
the ones we eat mostly not but cross breeds may
Fruits: The ovaries contained in the first (female) flowers grow rapidly, developing parthenocarpically (without pollination) into clusters of fruits, called hands. The number of hands varies with the species and variety. The fruit (technically a berry) turns from deep green to yellow or red, and may range from 2-1/2 to 12 inches in length and 3/4 to 2 inches in width. The flesh, ivory-white to yellow or salmon-yellow, may be firm, astringent, even gummy with latex when unripe, turning tender and slippery, or soft and mellow or rather dry and mealy or starchy when ripe. The flavor may be mild and sweet or subacid with a distinct apple tone. The common cultivated types are generally seedless with just vestiges of ovules visible as brown specks. Occasionally, cross-pollination with wild types will result in a number of seeds in a normally seedless variety

2007-01-18 22:02:33 · answer #7 · answered by G L 4 · 1 0

Bananas do have seeds. Cut a banana lengthwise to see them. They're small and black.

God bless.

2007-01-18 21:59:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Banana trees are grown from cuttings from mature trees.

2007-01-18 22:06:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Sure. If you slice a banana down the middle you'll see black seeds. They're not hard so don't be scared.

2007-01-18 22:01:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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