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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Fun fact: the bananas that are bred for human consumption are herbs. They don’t contain any seeds, and they grow on herbaceous bushes.
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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Fun fact: the bananas that are bred for human consumption are herbs. They don’t contain any seeds, and they grow on herbaceous bushes.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
I thought the tiny black dots inside were supposed to be the seeds?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Ok, I stand corrected, TIL about parthenocarpy:
teft@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
This is what the seeds actually look like in bananas for anyone who is curious.
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thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
So what are the tiny black dots?
db2@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Spider eggs.
But really they’re what would have been seeds but aren’t.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Apparently these are not the seeds themselves but only the remains of the original ovulums that contained the seed when they still existed.