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Old 04-10-2011, 02:40 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Default Re: red iholene and african rhino horn photos please

There is a group of plantains called Horn Plantains which all only produce female flowers, never producing male flowers. This mutation has occurred a few times in other groups of bananas, but it is rare. There is a budless Saba-type I know for sure, and an East African Highland Banana which switches between "budded" and "non-budded" forms. There are also a number of varieties, both edible and wild, which quickly terminate the male bud, but that is a different action than not producing a male bud at all as in the Horn Plantains.
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