How Bananas Are Grown. Banana plants are often mistaken for trees or palms – they are actually herbs. The banana is a perennial plant that replaces itself. Bananas do not grow from a seed but from a bulb or rhizome, and it takes 9 to 12 months from sowing a banana bulb to harvesting the fruit.
Are bananas natural or man made?
- Bananas: Believe it or not, bananas are man made. The yellow delight that goes back around 10,000 years was was apparently a blend of the wild Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana species of banana. You can try either of them and you'll find a rather foul taste.
Where do bananas grow naturally?
Today, banana plants grow in the humid, tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia where there are high temperatures and rainfall. Modern agricultural technologies also enable people to cultivate banana plants in non-tropical regions such as California in the United States.
Do bananas grow naturally in the wild?
Wild banana trees still exist, and they have plenty of seeds. So many seeds, in fact, that they're nearly completely inedible. Wild bananas are also much smaller than the fruit we enjoy today.
Are natural bananas extinct?
Similar to humans, bananas are facing a pandemic. Nearly all of the bananas sold globally are just one kind called the Cavendish, which is susceptible to a deadly fungus called Tropical Race 4, or Panama Disease. If not stopped, Tropical Race 4 could wipe out the $25 billion banana industry.
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