05 Aug 08 23:13, Mark Lewis wrote to Roy Witt:

 CH>>  http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/banana.html

 CH>>  Not long ago I recieved an article about the rising price of
 CH>> bananas and how the Cavendish variety monopolizes the market. Very
 CH>> intersting.... perhaps you've seen it.

 RW>> I don't pay attention to bananas at this time of year. Some of
 RW>> the resins in banana seeds attract mosquitos and I stop eating
 RW>> them by early June. (I know, bananas don't have seeds)

 ML> they don't? i wonder, then, what all those little dark spots are in
 ML> the middle that some recipes say to trim out? ;)

Those are seeds. I was being facetious because someone doesn't believe
anything someone tells her.

 ML> FWIW: yeah, we've grown banana trees from seed... pineapple, too...
 ML> many say that it can't be done until we show them it can be :)

Do they bear fruit?

                R\%/itt



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