Clone Facts

While wild banana varieties can reproduce through seeds, the common cultivated banana plant primarily reproduces asexually through suckers or rhizomes. For large-scale production, human intervention is essential to propagate these plants, as they rarely produce viable seeds.

The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.