Where do they get seeds to grow banana trees?
There is a stony pit inside a plump peach and a family of pips in the core of a juicy apple. These seeds can sprout into new fruit trees. A raspberry is riddled with gritty little seeds and so is a blackberry. However, you can search and search, but you will never find a seed in a banana. Most plants grow from seeds, but many others have other methods of handing on life to the next generation. What’s more, the growing of peach and other fruit trees from seeds is not so simple as you might suppose. True, a new tree will sprout from the pit of a peach, But without help, its fruit will be poor or it may not bear at all. In order to deserve a place in a healthy orchard, the young seedling must be grafted with a twig from the bough of a fruitful peach tree. Apples and plums, pears and apricots also grow best on grafted trees. However, we cannot grow a banana tree from a seed or graft it onto a seedling sprout: The friendly plant has no woody material in its trunk, so actually it is a herb.
