Banana Camouflage is a fruit that was classified for the first time by Hungarian botanist Franktof Burnsteins in 1979. According to the Burnsteins’ records, It started to grow spontaneously in the fields of Nicaragua in 1975 and since then has been expanding as far as Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Suriname and Brasil.
Banana Camouflage comes in a variety of sizes and colors, depending on the environment
it is found in. This fact has brought many scientists to describe it as a case of mimicry in nature. Burnsteins in particular put forward the hypothesis that the fact that certain bananas were mutating size and color had to be attributed to a “nature choice” to rebel against the human attitude towards its species. In his notebook of the time, Burnsteins wrote the sentence:
“She’s a master of disguise”, to describe the unusual behaviour of this banana variety [...].
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