PINK FLOYD - Learning To Fly

bjdon99 1 month ago

Every normal banana you buy in the store is a Cavendish banana, and each one is an exact genetic copy of every other Cavendish. Their small seeds are sterile. You can't grow a new banana tree from it. (for that matter it isn't actually a true tree. A banana tree is actually the world's biggest herb). These replaced the only other mass produced commercial banana, the Gros Michael (the 'Big Mike') when a fungus disease took them all out beginning in the early 1900s. But your grandparents all ate the Big Mike. And the 'banana' flavor you can buy in a store is based on the Big Mike, which has a much more 'banana-like' flavor than the more bland Cavendish. The Cavendish too is on the way out. Eventually a similar Panama Blight fungus that took out the Big Mikes will crush the Cavendish too, maybe in the next 10-20yrs. So far nobody has been able to find a 3rd edible variety to mass produce that is not prone to the blight. This may be it for the world's most favorite fruit if they can't find one soon.

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Gihren Zabi 3 weeks ago

It appears they have almost fixed the Big Mike with variant SH-3142.