What part of a banana is the seed?

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Banana seeds are contained inside the flesh — the edible part of the fruit. But because the cavendish subgroup is a hybrid plant, its minuscule seeds are not fertile. So, that’s why our bananas don’t have seeds. Farmers propagate banana plants through vegetative reproduction rather than seeds.

Is the part you eat in a banana to seed?

The yellow thing you peel and eat is, in fact, a fruit because it contains the seeds of the plant. Although since bananas have been commercially grown, the plants are sterile, and the seeds have gradually been reduced to little specs.

What part of banana do we eat?

The mesocarp is the middle part of the banana fruit. The mesocarp extends up to the innermost portion of the fruit which is called the endocarp. The endocarp is the portion which is eaten.

What type of bananas have seeds?

Seeded bananas, otherwise known as Wild bananas or Stone bananas, are botanically classified as Musa balbisiana or Musa brachycarpa. All modern bananas and plantains are descended from this and another wild species, Musa acuminata.

Why some bananas have seeds?

The banana seed contains the embryonic plant that will develop into a seedling. The formation of the seed is part of the process of sexual reproduction, which involves the fertilization of an ovule (located inside the portion of the female flower called the gynoecium) by pollen produced by male flowers.

How many seeds are there in banana?

How many seeds does a banana have? Most varieties of bananas contain anywhere from one to six seeds inside of them.

Why does my banana have black seeds?

Those big black seeds were the original seed of the banana. They’re the seed that the tree would spread. Wild varieties of bananas normally have these big black seeds. If the banana you’re seeing is a wild one, that is why.

What are the black seeds in bananas?

So her employee grabbed a banana and cut it in two —- and I explained that he would have to cut it lengthwise in order to bring to view the entire middle section. Sure enough there were two places where it was black and yucky looking instead of pure fruit with tiny dots of seeds.

Where is the banana stem?

The stem is visible in the center of the pseudostem. The pseudostem is the part that looks like a trunk. This ‘false stem’ is formed by the tightly packed overlapping leaf sheaths.

Which part of banana is not used as food?

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Complete answer: The roots and leaves of the banana plants are the only parts that are not consumed as food by humans.

How many seeds does banana have?

Seeds of cultivated bananas In a study of the products of crosses between 20 East African highland banana cultivars and Calcutta 4, the number of seeds per bunch ranged from 3 to 26, with an average of only 9 seeds per bunch.

Why does my banana have seeds?

Fruits contain seeds because that’s how their trees reproduce. An apple falls off the tree, the seeds get buried, and a new tree grows. But banana trees (actually giant herbaceous flowering plants) work differently. Put simply, bananas don’t have seeds because they don’t need them.