The answer to the question — " Is a banana a yield or a veg ? " — definitely places this fresh treat in the yield category , which is not surprising . But the answer to the specific head of — " What type of yield is a banana ? " — is what reveals the surprise . These elongated fruits certainly do n’t resemble other seeded fruits that have a rounded physical body . And they develop in large clustering prognosticate hands that point upward on a stalk , which drop from the banana plant life ( Musa spp . , USDA zones 10 - 11 ) .
**Bananas are botanic berries,** despite their resemblance to similarly classified fruit away .
The Banana Flower
Before fruits can form , there must be flower . TheTexas A&M AgriLife Extensionnotes that it select 10 to 15 months after a unexampled plant issue before it produces flowers . A foresighted chandelier stalk , call an inflorescence , spring up from the tip of the banana plant , which is lined with these flowers . The large purplish flower bud first display five to 15 row of purely female - gendered flowers that are lily-livered - livid in colour and tubular .
bet on the flora genes , according to the type of banana , the number of whorled rows of these female flush will develop into banana tree yield without need pollenation . When yield form without pollination , it is considered an representative of parthenocarpy .
accord toCalifornia Rare Fruit Growers , when the banana plant ’s inflorescence elongates , it also produces infertile bloom with both useless male and distaff prime organs and at long last flowers that are whole male . Banana fruits do not mold in either of these areas on the inflorescence , and they just shrivel up up and fall away .
How Banana Flowers Produce Fruit
The banana fruit results from the swelling of each distaff bloom ’s ovary wall . This officially makes a banana a Charles Edward Berry . The ovary of a banana tree flower is located below the point of attachment of the flower petal , make it an " inferior ovary " in position . Because the broken stem base of the heyday ( the receptacle ) house the inferior ovary , they mutually intumesce to become the fruit .
Banana Fruit Texture
Banana fruits are soft , fleshy and full of fluid tissues and are regarded as " fleshy fruit . " This is another feature of a berry and is the opposite of a " dry " like a nut , grain , capsule , legume , achene or key fruit yield . Moreover , perfumed - fleshed types are known as banana while those with starchy , less sweet flesh are consider plantains .
Composition of Banana Fruits
The receptacle of the flower becomes the banana tree fruit ’s skin while the compartment of the ovary ( ovules ) well with tissue paper replete with starches and sugars to form the tasty core . Since the female flower develop into fruit without require to be pollinate , there are no come in advanced bananas . The chocolate-brown specks come across in banana flesh , erroneously identified as seeds , actually are the dried , shrivel remnants of aborted ovary compartment ( ovules ) .
Types of Banana Fruits Today
In ancient times , the raving mad species of bananas across tropical Southern Asia produced fruits with viable seed in their flesh . Although this can occur today , centuries of genetic manipulation by plant breeders to rise larger - sized fruits or banana plants that are more resistant to diseases and pests has yield the vast bulk of modern banana tree types as seedless .
In fact , unlike inherited codes from various banana are fused together to create diploid ( 2n ) , triploid ( 3n ) , tetraploid ( 4n ) and other polyploid - type bananas that have multiple circle of chromosomes . A simplistic explanation is that extra chromosome sets often prevent seed shaping because the codes do not dead match , which leads to bombastic - sized fruit that have varying flesh colors and flavors .
