The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race 4 (TR4).
If you’re in the United States and not in a tropical area, a website called Miami Fruit will ship you a banana sampler with some of the bananas you’ve been missing. Cavendish bananas are garbage.
If you’re in the United States and not in a tropical area, a website called Miami Fruit will ship you a banana sampler with some of the bananas you’ve been missing. Cavendish bananas are garbage.