Banana Plus Anatomy

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Bats love an inflorescence, or a big stock of flowers to motor boat after sun goes down. When it gets open, then the bats come and palnate them. There aren't any new world bats that originally depended on bananas for polnation,. They came from the old world, tropics. But all commercial bananas that we eat to day come from bat dependent ancestors.

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