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Old 10-05-2007, 04:58 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Default Re: A cold hardy stand of bananas in a Sacramento backyard.

There is always a debate between what is and isn't edible, if we go with the literal, most basic meaning of the word, then every banana in the world makes an edible fruit, as none of them will harm you, and you can eat them and use them in different ways for consumption.

However, in order to maintain the difference between normal wild bananas, and those special cultivated types which have the all-important parthenocarpic (forming fruit without pollination, thus without seeds) trait, the term "edible" is only applied to the cultivated, parthenocarpic varieties. Not wild, seeded types. The distinction between these two groups (albeit the borders can be fuzzy at times) of bananas is very important to recognize and the term "edible" is this context is intended to apply only to cultivated, non-seeded, parthenocarpic bananas. For if seeds were forever present in bananas, they would surely not be anywhere near the scale of cultivation as a food crop as they are today.
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