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Bananas

WORDS by Rosie Wang

Tropical Port Douglas is in the heart of banana country.
Read here about this amazing berry!
Yes, that’s right! A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry!
In Australia, 85% of bananas are produced within a 100 km radius of the
Tully Valley that stretches from Port Douglas south to Townsville. Five
million bananas are eaten every day, so we are talking a lot of bananas.
The Musa species are native to Australia and are likely to have been first
domesticated in Papua New Guinea.

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