Originally Posted by Gabe15

I never could get any to germinate, even in vitro, and as it turns out there is actually an endophytic fungi of some sort
which lives inside the seeds, making it seemingly almost impossible to germinate in vitro (at least in my experience, as
well as that of a veteran tissue culture expert who also tried to germinate them in the 80's following the PNG Musa
collection mission by then INIBAP. He also mentioned that the plants were full of endophytes making tissue culture of
the meristems very difficult, and ultimately they all failed). I wouldn't doubt the endophyte has some role in it's
germination in nature.