Musa Aurantiaca: Edible Seeded banana?

banana13 · 01-21-2013, 07:54 PM

Hello everyone. I was looking through the Wiki and Found this about Musa Aurantiaca:

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This species is very rare in cultivation. It is a member of the Rodochlamys subgenera so is similar to species as Musa velutina and Musa ornata except M. aurantiaca has an orange flower. The seeds are exceptionally small, one of the the smallest banana seeds, round with a smooth light-brown seed coat.

If the seeds are that small, then could this be an edible, seeded banana? i have heard that M. velutina has sweet flesh but is too seedy for normal consumption, but if this is related, and has smaller seeds, then, well... you see where I'm getting at.

Gabe15 · 01-24-2013, 07:28 AM

Basically, no. The fruits are also smaller than M. velutina, and there is very little pulp. Even M. velutina is edible, and the seeds really are not as hard as is often reported, you can easily crush them with your teeth but they are a bit astringent. I still enjoy eating the fruit with seeds. The critical difference between edible and wild (seeded) bananas is not the presence or absence of seeds (or the size of the seeds), but rather the presence or absence of parthenocarpy.

banana13 · 01-24-2013, 09:37 AM

OK, thanks.

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