The bananas we eat now are all cultivated and improved by long-term artificial selection. The original wild banana contains hard seeds, which is very inconvenient to eat. Long-term cultivation and selection lead to wild banana variation, and there are no seeds in the fruit. In fact, strictly speaking, bananas nowadays are not seedless. If you look carefully, rows of brown dots in bananas are degenerated seeds. Because the seeds of bananas are degraded, people often reproduce their offspring through the roots and tillering buds under bananas.
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Shennongjia wild banana is a wild banana variety growing in Shennongjia, Hubei Province. Shennongjia people named bananas Shennongjia. Because of its maturity in August, it is also called August melon in Dazhou, Guangyuan and Pingwu County of Mianyang City. There is a local saying that melons are fried in August and pierced in September. Therefore, August melon will only peel and eat its pulp in September, but it is suitable for eating its pulp, which is sweet and juicy and tastes similar to bananas. Most peels contain seeds and few edible parts.
Wild banana has the functions of soothing liver, tonifying kidney, relieving pain, diminishing inflammation, diuresis and dehumidification. Pharmacology is mainly used to treat stubborn tinea, alopecia areata, impotence, constipation and other diseases. Its fresh fruit is resistant to storage and transportation, and its dried fruit can be sliced for medicine.
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