Hello again, it’s me, Bananaman. As you already know, bananas are part of my life. I love to eat them and I love my work in the banana research world.

While working, I’m also doing some cool pictures and some art with bananas that you might also enjoy. Probably there are facts of the bananas that you have never heard or seen before. Like for instance… bananas with seeds, Bonsai bananas, hydroponic bananas, or maybe red bananas, banana flowers… so many things. Here just a bite of it.

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Bananas with seeds

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Most popular edible bananas do not produce seeds but wild types and some cultivars under special circumstances can do it.

Little banana with seeds

Seed germinating

Bananas are not trees, they are actually the biggest herbs on earth.

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Bananas are not trees, they are actually the biggest herbs on earth. These two bananas have exactly the same age. Since they are not trees they have no stem. When we remove all the leaves this is what you get. It is called corm or rhizome. Looks like an onion right?

Plants under greenhouse.

Plants under greenhouse. The yellow shows plants that are showing symptoms of disease known as Panama Disease

Sick bananas with Panama disease

Is easier to see here. The Panama disease causes wilting and yellowing among other symptoms

Banana leaves repel water

That is why is difficult to apply nutrition or pesticides, usually there are products that help to make it easier like the adjuvants

More sick bananas

The plant in the middle is a healthy plant, the plants on the sides are plants with the disease. you can see the yellowing

Bananas ripening

There are many varieties of bananas, they look different, they tasted different and you must eat them in different ways

Cigar leaf

The newest leaf of the banana it is called cigar leaf

Banana leaves can reach up to 3 meters long on edible banana plants

Water repellers

Water repellers

Bananas have also flowers

Bananas have inflorescence with male and female flowers in different locations. These are male flowers with anthers and pollen

Female flowers (future bananas)

These are female flowers, they become fruits eventually

Male bud and male flowers

the red part is known as male bud and is composed by bracts

More female flowers

Inflorescence of a traditional cultivar

Inflorescence of a traditional cultivar, it just emerged female and male flowers are covered by the red bracts that will soon fall

Bananas under greenhouse in the Netherlands

These are bananas I have in the Netherlands in the place I’m working at the moment

Detail of a male flower

Detail of a male flower

There are also hermaphrodite bananas

There are also hermaphrodite bananas (bananas male and female flowers in the same position)

Cavendish bananas before supermarket

Have you heard about the Cavendish banana? Well this is how it looks before you can pick it up at the supermarket

There are red bananas

Red bananas? yes, there are red bananas

also minibananas

What do we do with over ripe bananas?

In vitro banana, bananas are usually propagated in the lab

Bonsai banana #1

Bonsai Banana #2

Bonsai Banana #3

Bonsai Banana #4

Hydroponic bananas at home

Banana seedlings in the greenhouse

detail of the banana seeds

A bunch of Gros Michel

A bunch of Gros Michel, the banana that ruled the trade marked the previous century before it was dismissed by the Panama disease, later it was replaced by the Cavendish

Cavendish banana at home

There are hundreds of edible bananas, we eat just one

There are hundreds of edible bananas, most people know 2 or 3 types

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