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Comment Re:And the nutritional content is the same? (Score 1) 105

Fe'i bananas are neat, they're not even from the same two crossed species as the other ~99% of bananas on Earth, or even in the same Musa subgroup. They grow upright instead of hanging down. They ripen orange, mottled/striped, or brick red, and are, as noticed, yellow inside, with like 100x the beta carotene of a Cavendish. The sap is purple and can be used as a dye. Different number of chromosomes (not just ploidy). Etc. Very different!

Just another case of the Polynesians doing their own thing ;) They originated in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and then the Polynesians took them everywhere with them in their boats. And when we're talking bananas, that means transporting live plants (corms).

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