Why there are no seeds for a Banana?

Question

Banana does not have any seed. Then what is the use of banana for a banana tree?

Answer 1

I m not a botany student but still i know that banana have seeds,

and they sometimes grow to about the size of peper.


I have found them inside the banana quite some times.


Rest depends upon u!!

Answer 2

Azure and Dark are correct. So are some of the others. the trees are usually grown from the "suckers" from the original tree. however, if you stick a banana in the ground, under the right conditions, you might just get a plant from it. I am not sure if the seeds must go through a digestive track to be usable. Some seeds are that way. The idea being that an animal eats the fruit then when they poop, someplace else, they spread the seeds over a wide area.

Answer 3

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.

Cultivated bananas are parthenocarpic, which makes them sterile and unable to 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 4

Bananas do have seeds, but not all varieties grow from these seeds. The bananas in your supermarket have vestigial seeds, which mean the seeds are in there (little black dots one can see when slicing the banana) but they're not functional reproductive parts. Instead, the bananas grow from offshoots of the plant's roots. Bananas are unlike other fruits in this aspect, but this could be because the banana tree is actually a large, herbaceous plant rather than a fruit tree.

Answer 5

Banana plants are a more primitive plant life form. They don't need other banana plants to reproduce. It's called asexual reproduction. That's why there are no seeds.

The banana grows from root sections. And can grow from fallen banana plants. The banana fruit is the final product of that plants growth cycle. The fruit will eventually rot. Then a new banana plant will emerge from the root system of that plant.

Answer 6

In modern breeding, bananas with smaller seeds have been selected due to the fact that high-income country consumers prefer "dessert bananas" to not have seeds. As a result, bananas now mainly reproduce clones asexually with corms.

Answer 7

A banana does have seeds! They are very small. Look really close at the center of a banana. They are there.

Answer 8

banana have seeds at the center but it is parthenocarpic seeds has not a capacity to reproduse,no need of seeds in the case of banana,it can propagate vegitatively.

Answer 9

Because a banana reproduces asexually... it doesn't need seeds as these are only required for sexual reproduction.

Answer 10

Cultivation:
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..... <--- got this from wikipedia. :D