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 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 ...

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 ...

A hungry wild elephant took a bunch of bananas from the back of a pickup truck. The jumbo stopped the passing four-wheeler in ...

clumps of bananas formerly cultivated by villagers – along with other crops such as taro and ginger – have gradually gone wild, their unclaimed fruit a welcome food source for both migratory ...

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.