I was afraid to try it at first, cause I worried that I just wouldn't get any more fruit at all, lol! But since my tribe was still pretty small and I had 3 kids that I was using to hunt for mushrooms as well, I decided to go ahead and risk it. I was pleased when it worked out.

Edited to add -- you didn't get ANY banana trees? That seemed to be all the game wanted to give to me at first!