Actually bananas are native to Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines. Wild banana types have many large hard seeds. Commercial cultivation of bananas has produced the varieties we are use to. These have no seed and need man to propagate. Any bananas in other parts of the world were brought and cultivated by man.
Bananas didn't reach the New World until the 1500. For some of the history of bananas in the New World you might want to look into the
United Fruit Company
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