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Response to Hugin (Reply #10)

Sat Jul 24, 2021, 03:43 PM

18. Gros Michel was the variety when I was a kid (this would be about 50 years ago) . . .

It became commercially extinct and was replaced by the Cavendish, which is the dominant commodity banana today.

It's on the way out as well:

https://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139787380/bananas-the-uncertain-future-of-a-favorite-fruit

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