JoeReal

I have mentioned in earlier posts as to the reasons why banana naming became chaotic tin a way similar to citruses. It blurs the definition of what a species supposedly is, especially when you have complex hybrids of more than one ploidy level and whose major means of natural propagation is asexual (bananas) or nucellar (citruses).

Fortunately with citruses, research money have been well spent to sort out major species parentage of various cultivars, and I was surprised that there's only three major species and their hybrids that formed most of todays accepted cultivars. Lemons and grapefruits for example are not pure species but hybrids. Today's wrong species name of these supposedly distinct species has stuck with us and will be so for ages.

Wish they could do genetic analysis of different banana cultivars. Especially when the west panicked in several reports that there is only one dessert banana type in the stores! Yes, there is only one dessert cavendish type exported to the west, and we know very well there are more than 1,000 species that are literally edible.