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Old 04-30-2009, 05:52 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Welcome Sam!

Each one of those segments is called a locule, bananas have trilocular ovaries (each ovary, aka fruit, has three locules...pretty simple). Bananas are monocots, and monocots generally have floral parts in multiples of three. So to confirm your observation, what you are seeing is the divisions of the three locules within the single ovary. A fun way to exaggerate this is to peel a banana and push down directly into the fruit from the top, the locules should all split apart rather nicely.
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