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Originally Posted by Jack Daw
Nope, it maybe doesn't look like that, but the undeveloped seeds are quite larg, mcuh larger than unprocessed poppy seeds.
This is a wild banana of Turkey, there has never been any breeding what-so-ever, the plant just lives by itself.
It also donates quite a lot of pollen, because one of my friends in there can't really grow any seeded variety, as this is very invasive, it pollinates everyting from some reason.
Btw. The fruit from DC or SDC I have ever eaten or the food from the stores had much smaller and much less seeds, that this one. Please look at this link and tell me what you think. This was I think the plant taken from Turkey by a man from Germany (especially the seeds size picture, the last one):
Bilder 2009
Any clues as what you would call this? I'm pretty sure it really has no name but Musa paradisiaca. |
In that link you posted, the banana there is not fully developed, and those "seeds" are still just undeveloped ovules, not seeds. There are no true wild bananas in Turkey, anything there would likely be an edible landrace. I cannot make an ID on that plant because it is too underdeveloped. It doesn't matter that it is called Musa paradisiaca, but because there is no M. paradisiaca plant, many many different bananas are all incorrectly called M. paradisiaca, so it cannot be used to say that 2 plants are the same if they both come with that name.