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momoese
10-30-2009, 06:10 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25932&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25932)

In cleaning up the mess from the winds I picked up the top of a cut pseudo stem pictured above and found something growing backwards out of the cut. I lifted it up and out came the flower bud, so I decided to have a closer look at it.

It was about a foot long before I started to take it apart.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25934&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25934)

You can see the leaves and the flower in the middle. If you look real close you can see the little nanners in there.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25933&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25933)

So I peeled off the leaves until I got to the fruit. Tiny little things! The match is the cardboard book type, not a stick match.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25935&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25935)

I then peeled some bracts off until it wouldn't peel anymore.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25937&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25937)

Then I cut it in half and this is what it looked like.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25936&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25936)

Another shot in the sunshine. Now you know! :)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25938&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25938)

Bob
10-30-2009, 06:15 PM
I would have looked up a recipe........after I was done crying:ha:

harveyc
10-30-2009, 06:16 PM
Thanks, Mitchel!

rscotth
10-30-2009, 06:46 PM
Thanks for the pictures- interesting. Your Orinoco's look like they were doing well until the winds came. I think you should give the Orinoco's another chance and keep growing them :bananas_j:bananas_j

momoese
10-30-2009, 06:50 PM
This is Hawaiian Apple Bob.

I don't grow Orinoco anymore. I replaced them with FHIA 18 :)

r3tic
10-30-2009, 08:24 PM
Thanks for the pics, very cool!

momoese
10-30-2009, 08:32 PM
I would have looked up a recipe........after I was done crying:ha:

I actually thought about eating a bit raw but decided not to. The texture was very nice, like a cellery heart. It actually smelled pleasant too. But I really wanted to see what was inside more than I wanted to cook it! I won't have many chances to cut one open you know. (knock on wood!)

john_ny
10-30-2009, 11:11 PM
Very interesting. I know it's a terrible loss, but consider your pictures a step forward for science.

Scott
10-31-2009, 09:49 AM
Thanks for the pictures. That's amazing you noticed the growth.
I now know what's going on in there!! :) Very informative.

LilRaverBoi
10-31-2009, 12:38 PM
Very cool! Thanks for the dissection pics! (I love a good dissection, myself!) Very interesting to see how it looks under-developed....though much like I would have expected it to. Too bad it didn't make it to maturity! :(

Dalmatiansoap
10-31-2009, 03:23 PM
This is great info. Something I couldnt even imagine. WOW!
True Jing-Jang issue.
THX for sharing
:woohoonaner:

figafita
10-31-2009, 06:50 PM
very interesting.
thanks

island cassie
10-31-2009, 06:54 PM
Mitchell - that is so interesting - thank you for taking the time!!