Sweet...hopefully you are speaking about Fei....this is truly a magical fruit.
I will work on my notes and upload a couple more videos..in the interim there are three you tube Fei Videos that we took while in Moorea.
Follow the link:
French Polynesia
After the video plays...scroll along the bottom of the You Tube window to play the other videos.
If you have ever smelled fresh juiced wheat grass...that is what they smell like (as you peel them).
In French Polynesia they are always referred to as "Bananas To Cook", by the rare Islanders that Speak English.
Following is quoted from post 24 of
French Polynesia:
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Originally Posted by damaclese
Fei are a type of banana that grow in and around Polynesia they are well adapted to that climate able to withstand the severe heat and long dry spells that some times plague many inlands when you cut them they bleed red sap its vary pretty but staining the fruit is Orange in color just about all us want a plant I think they would do well here in NV but there vary hard to come by no on seems to be able to get them
here is a link to a nice discussion on fei
Musa 'Aiuri', fe'i banana |
The last person I know of that grew them in the continental US was Bill Lessard (former owner of Going Bananas and author of "The Complete Book of Bananas") in Homestead, FL.