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By Alice Wright Despite one of the wettest British summers on record, bunches of bananas have grown on a tree in Exeter for only the second time in 20 years. Groundsmen at the University of Exeter were astonished to find the fruit growing on one of the trees in the Vice Chancellor's garden at Redcot. This is only the second time in 20 years that banana trees at the university have fruited. Bananas typically thrive in warm conditions and, although they need to be well watered, they do not...