bananas

I love stories like this – what happens if bananas go extinct? Plot bunnies released into the world… In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world—a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America—all but disappeared from the planet. At the time, it was the only banana in the world that could be exported. But a fungus, known as Panama Disease, which first appeared in Australia in the late 1800s, changed that after jumping continents.The disease debilitated the plants that bore the fruit. The damage was so great and swift that in a matter of … Read more