bigdog

Tony, I don't know where that rumor got started, but it is false. I have pollinated Musa basjoo flowers with pollen from a different flower in the same mat and got seeds just last year. I only got one banana, and there were only 3 seeds in it, but it did work!

And I would imagine that seeds are hard to find because it is such an easy banana to find in cultivation. Kind of like how not many people propagate Colocasia esculenta by seed, it is just so easy to get a clone by other means. It would be nice to see a bit more genetic diversity with musa basjoo however!