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Spot on. The cavendish banana even recruited a globally present mammal species to spread its clones into all latitudes where it can grow, on both hemispheres. A
by usrusr 4y ago
Spot on. The cavendish banana even recruited a globally present mammal species to spread its clones into all latitudes where it can grow, on both hemispheres. And it's not looking too well for it.
(now my brain is playing that song from the chiquita banana ad on loop that was based on Carmen Miranda in The Gang's All Here, as if that movie hadn't already saturated the worldwide demand for banana advertisement for decades)
- iAmAPencilYo 4y agoNot looking well in what sense?
- gus_massa 4y agoIn the sense that the Gros Michel [1] was the most popular banana until 1950 when most of the cultivar were destroyed by the Panama disease. The Cavendish also has this problem [2]. See also https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3952-the-reason-artificial-banana-flavor-tastes-nothing-like-real-bananas https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3952-the-reason... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana#Diseases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana#Diseases