News:Nutrients in fruits and vegetab

[Guest guest]

Here is a fun fact. Banana trees, which are not

really trees at all, put all there energy into groing

up, sometimes 20-25 feet tall, produce 1 bunch of

bananas, then promptly die. New shoots come up from the

roots to form new trees. The strange thing is, the

bananas contain no seeds. They have evolved beyond

propigation by seed. there are still little specks of what

used to be seeds in them, but no seeds.<br> Cool eh?

Doug

[Guest guest]

Hi Doug:<br><br>I read a book once by a person

whose hobby was getting exotic, tropical fruit seeds to

grow in their home. This person spoke of the

challenges in growing banana from seed. Rather than saying

that the banana no seeds, they said the seeds were

extremely small. They tried for a long time to extract some

of these little " specks " from bananas, and get them

to grow, with no success. Then after much effort

they did get a banana tree to grow from one of the

seeds. I am sure that propagation also happens in the

manner you describe, but if this author wasn't making up

her story, they also still have viable seeds, even if

humans don't have great success starting them that way.

[Guest guest]

Another thing about bananas, the root system

stays alive after the " tree " dies, essentialy making

the banana plant imortal. As they say, you are what

you eat. Can you guess my favorite fruit?<br> Does

any one know where I can get truly raw almonds for

sprouting? I buy supposedly raw almonds from the health food

stores, but they don't sprout.<br><br> Doug