The banana is the world’s most popular fruit crop, with over 100 million metric ... Plant scientists, including us, are working out the genetics of wild banana varieties and banana pathogens ...

If you're planting your banana tree outdoors, choose a location with full sun to partial shade. If you're planting your tree indoors, choose a spot near a south- ...

The wild banana is very seedy and considered unpleasant ... which are much more like vegetables than the sweet fruit we enjoy today. Even as bananas grew to be consumed more for their inner ...

Modern watermelon has a fleshy red interior and can be seedless. Wild banana was likely first cultivated 7,000 years ago in Papua New Guinea. The insides were stocky and tough, holding large seeds.

It means each banana plant is genetically almost identical, producing a reliably consistent fruit crop ... as “biocontrols” and leaving more wild patches to encourage wildlife.

Wild monkeys do eat bananas ... The monkeys have now been weened off bananas and other fruit, and are instead being served green leafy vegetables and lots leafy branches, called browse.

Thick, humid air envelopes Myriam Claude's banana tree, which bears a beautiful cluster of fruit, not yet ripe. Beside it are several trees blossoming with flowers, citrus fruit, and tiny ...