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sink ur teef into dis lolol. Anonymous
Hey /an/.

I was trying to pull back the banana peel on this, well, banana, when I heard a little 'snap' and looked down. It had 'cracked' in half, and in the near center was this dark orange vein, which was hard, dotted with little black dots. I think these are eggs, and I tried finding out everything I could about banana-borne bugs, but no luck.

Maybe you can help.
>> Anonymous
Those are seeds you idiot. Your banana is still alive and ripening when you get it and the seeds develop along the core. This is why the skin on a green banana is thicker than on a ripe banana.
>> Anonymous
SUE DA MUDDA FUCKAS
>> Anonymous
bananas don't actually have seeds. learned it in my bio class.
>> Anonymous
All commercially grown banana trees are clones.
>> Anonymous
wtffff
>> Anonymous
ewwww.... I was gonna go grab a banana, but after reading that... i don't want one anymore....
>> Anonymous
>>83628
That's complete bollocks. Bananas don't have seeds (they are planted by humans because they don't do it themselves).

Have you ever eaten a green banana? I'm guessing no, because when you eat 'em, they're just less sweet, and starchier, almost, then properly ripe bananas. Thre are no 'seeds' inside, nor are they much different from yellow bananas, except for, as I mentioned, a slightly weird taste.

Also, has anyone else ever bitten the top off the banana, after being unable to get it opent the regular way, and gotten some of the juice in your mouth? It's like pumpkin juice, or plaster dust. Makes your mouth go all weird and dryish.
>> Anonymous
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>>83659
Oh, I forgot the picture :)
>> Anonymous
Shouldn't this shit go in /veg/?
>> Anonymous
>>83617
I'd bet that this was just a cavity in the banana because of water or some other variable. It could be a cavity caused by an insect, but I doubt it.

>>83632
>>83659
Cavendish bananas do have seeds. They're vestigial--smaller than poppy seeds generally. Much like other "seedless" fruit varieties, they can occasionally produce a fully developed seed. I don't know if they're viable or not. The 2 that I've found did not grow.
>> Anonymous
>>83674

OP here.

Interesting to note that I didn't find a puncture or hole where the cavity started or ended. I, too, would assume they were natural seeds, but the banana was completely ripened, and another from the same bunch did not have this.
>> Anonymous
>>83710
Fuckign focus ur camera
>> Anonymous
>>83759

fuqjin lern2spel.
>> Anonymous
>>83617
Take a better picture, plz.
>> Gehirn
Oh, Lord Almighty.

Okay, so what you have there is an overripe banana that is starting to go all mushy in the center. The black spots ARE seeds, which, yes, bananas do have. All commonly grown banana cultivars are "seedless" varieties where the only trace of seeds are vestigial ovules visible as brown specks. Bananas are commonly propagated by way of rhizomes that grow from the plant's corm underground, but wild, uncultivated, seeded varieties can still spread by seed (you'll learn that the point of fruit is to spread seeds.)

The stuff in banana rinds that makes your mouth go all dry is actually latex. It is also present in the flesh, but mostly in unripe bananas. About half of people with latex allergies have allergic reactions from eating bananas (as well as some other fruits, like avocado and kiwi).
>> Anonymous
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>>84038

what does rhinozerus have to do with anything
>> Anonymous
I've wondered about banana-borne bugs, too. I found a grub in mine once, and never forgot it. There was a puncture where it got in, though, so it shouldn't have surprised me.