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 The dark brown spot you can see is the seed from the domesticated banana. Bananas are actually classified as a berry, along with their cousins the plantain. This seed came from what is generally described as a “seedless banana,” usually either
 
 Musa acuminata
 
 or
 
 Musa balbisiana.
 
 The seed is actually not responsible for the growth of new banana plants, as farmers will take viable parts of the plant and replant them so that a new mutant banana plant will grow. The bananas that we eat today are unable to reproduce any other way, making them hard to crossbreed and thus more susceptible to disease.

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