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Default Re: is mussa nagensium eatable?

This is a wild species, the fruit (if you are able to get it to flower and hand pollinate it) will be full of seeds with very little pulp. In the banana world it would not be considered an "edible" banana, though you could technically eat them. As a general rule, you cannot grow edible bananas from seed, any banana grown from seed will have fruit with seeds in it and thus not be edible. All edible types of banana plants must be from vegetative divisions from a larger plant, often called "pups" or "suckers", or a tissue cultured plant.
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