plantanarchy:

plantanarchy:

Mmmmm bananas from our banana tree. They tasted kind of sour.

@ethereal-insight @wise-old-saturn and anyone else asking about my banana lads, look ok… bananas are actually a pretty diverse group of plants but there are only a few that we cultivate on a mass scale to the point that you see them in store. The main one being the Cavendish cultivar(s) which are the long yellow sweet ones. There are over 70 different species of banana (Musa) but the wild type bananas are mostly seeds and gross so various different cultivars have been developed over time that reduces seed size and makes them sweeter and there are only a few species widely cultivated today for world markets. Technically plantains are the same thing as bananas, just different cultivars and/or species and are starchier/seedier/whatever.

Our bananas at work are not Cavendish bananas so they aren’t going to look like Cavendish bananas. Idk what cultivar they are but inside they look basically just like a regular banana. And taste kind of like if you eat a Cavendish that’s still green. You wouldn’t ever see these kinds of bananas in stores because a) they ugly b) they taste a little funky and c) idk how they’d hold up to transport they kind of got brown just getting them down from the tree and having them sit for a day.

The banana trees people buy to grow their own bananas at home are usuallyyy Dwarf Cavendish so if you grew your own banana tree at home, you’d get bananas that look more like your typical store banana.

Also cool fun fact, if you’ve ever heard that banana candy flavor is based on the Gros Michel banana which went extinct in the 20th century…. that’s false. First of all, the Gros Michel isn’t extinct, just not really viable to produce on a mass scale because the disease that almost wiped it out is still around. And idk if banana flavored candy tastes like Gros Michel or not, you’d have to travel to a banana farm that grew them to find out.