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Gabe15 · 01-24-2013, 07:28 AM

Basically, no. The fruits are also smaller than M. velutina, and there is very little pulp. Even M. velutina is edible, and the seeds really are not as hard as is often reported, you can easily crush them with your teeth but they are a bit astringent. I still enjoy eating the fruit with seeds. The critical difference between edible and wild (seeded) bananas is not the presence or absence of seeds (or the size of the seeds), but rather the presence or absence of parthenocarpy.

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