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Originally Posted by BananaAddict
The great wealth of Musa germplasm in Southeast Asia includes some of the
rarest and most unique cultivars of banana in the world. The Pisang Kates of
Indonesia bear large, solitary fruits per ‘hand’ and the ‘fingers’ look like small
papaya. Kates mean papaya.
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Originally Posted by Richard
BananaAddict,
What publication (if known, the issue also) is this from?
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It is a Fe'i banana, where the fruit bunch points upwards "to the heavens". Here is the Publication: BANANA CULTIVAR NAMES AND SYNONYMS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
The second attachment is a photo of a Karat Banana from Pohnpei. It's the closest thing I can find to the Pisang Kates.