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Wild hungry elephant takes banana from the back of pickup truck
A hungry wild elephant took a bunch of bananas from the back of a pickup truck. The jumbo stopped the passing four-wheeler in ...
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How to Grow and Care for a Banana Tree
If you're planting your banana tree outdoors, choose a location with full sun to partial shade. If you're planting your tree ...
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One of the most popular fruit crops in the world could be decimated by disease
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 ...
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The Pawpaw, North America’s Largest Native Fruit, Is Regaining Popularity
The Green Thumb Garden Club of Collegedale/Ooltewah will meet for the first time this year on Monday, Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Chestnut Hall (in the Commons), 4950 Swinyar Dr. in Collegedale. ... more ...
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The banana you’re eating is an asexual clone
Although wild bananas do pollinate their flowers, their fruit is packed full of peppercorn-hard seeds, making them inedible. The soft, yellow flesh of the edible varieties is the result of a ...
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What fruits and vegetables looked like before we domesticated them
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.
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The ‘pandemic’ destroying the world’s favourite fruit
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.