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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap
The most famous variegated bananas are seedless cultivares.
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Variegated banana cultivars having seeds in their fruit has nothing to do with how famous or popular they are it's about if their female flowers were pollinated or not.
Probably the most famous variegated banana cultivar in the world is the Manini aka a'ea'e and every one that we harvest on our farm has seeds and that's because we have plenty of bees and all of the plants are probably within a 1/4 mile of a fertile pollen source.
Banana Cultivars don't self pollinate and if there isn't a suitable pollen source nearby they'll produce seedless fruit and that's why they are chosen to be CULTI-vated VAR-ieties, CULTIVAR.
Here's a Manini a'ea'e I harvested today and I sliced one of the fruit so members could see the seed appear as the slices were removed.
