Banana, those little secrets that nobody knows!

Gravity? There is another great thing about non-existent bananas that they "despise" gravity. Fruits grow upside down. This is a special process that every banana must go through during its growth.

But when banana fruits first grow, gravity makes them bow their heads. Until they grow out of shape and become "young and strong" boys, they begin to rebel against nature and raise their noble heads.

A small banana that has just grown.

I don’t blame the children for being too rebellious, because bananas originated in the rainforest, and the plants in the rainforest are not the highest but higher, while the bananas are wronged. They are so short that they hardly get sunlight in the middle layer of the rainforest.

Bananas facing down temporarily

However, children need to bask in the sun when they grow up. If they want to grow sideways like other plants, bananas may lose their balance because of the overweight fruit and cause the whole plant to fall over.

Mom, I’m bent

But life has to go on, and if there is no way, create a way. The plant has tried its best to grow tall, and the rest is left to the doll to solve. So bananas have developed this wonderful way to grow up.

If you have seen wild bananas, you will also find that those bananas outside are also seeded. I can’t help it. People also need to carry on the family line.

If you think one of the banana-flavored snacks available in our supermarket is too fragrant, it may be the smell of Big Mike. Because the banana essence at that time was made according to the flavor of Big Mike.

It is precisely because of the breeding method of seedless bananas that all big Mike are identical copies of genes. So when they encountered Panama virus, the big Mike banana in the world was completely wiped out.

Because they are triploids of asexual reproduction, the genetic diversity is very small. So once you get a fungal infection, it’s a whole piece. So everyone can only watch big Mike slowly disappear into the public eye.

Source: Yiwu Popular Science

Original title: "Those little secrets of bananas! 》

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