A banana under threatSourced
Only three mature trees
may have been left.
In 2018, Kew botanists thought that just three known mature Madagascar banana trees, Ensete perrieri, might remain. Seedlings had also been observed; the figure referred to mature trees, not every plant.
The familiar fruit
has a precarious relative.
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