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Natureboy
01-26-2016, 07:52 PM
There's a banana bunch on vitin6039's avatar that looks like thousand fingers except the bananas turn red when ripe. What is it?

Kegas76
01-26-2016, 08:38 PM
Is it this thing?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/24/d7/54/24d754e00ae7ff81db673703b3dae780.jpg

If so this has been brought up before. I don't remember what people said it was but its not a banana.

Natureboy
01-26-2016, 09:13 PM
Yes, that looks like the thing, whatever it is. Now with your close up pic, I can see it must be something else... but, what???

Kat2
01-26-2016, 09:25 PM
The fruit looks like prickly pear. Yes, I know it's not but the shape is similar.

Gabe15
01-27-2016, 12:08 AM
I've sen this photo before, and to me it always looked like an Aroid of some kind, maybe a Bromeliad, but I lean towards Aroid. Definitely not a banana.

Kegas76
01-27-2016, 12:48 AM
That's right, I think Gabe was also the one that ID'd it in the last thread.

Here is the corpse flower with fruit
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Aftbv273Gko/TcWfQneTa9I/AAAAAAAAAGc/Ci_ySAX7ul4/s1600/PA309665e.jpg

merce3
01-29-2016, 07:50 PM
I've sen this photo before, and to me it always looked like an Aroid of some kind, maybe a Bromeliad, but I lean towards Aroid. Definitely not a banana.

Gabe, what kind of bananas are the ones in your avatar?

Gabe15
01-29-2016, 08:22 PM
Gabe, what kind of bananas are the ones in your avatar?

It is an undescribed wild species from the Solomon Islands

More info here:
http://www.bananas.org/f2/soloman-islands-bananas-14129.html

merce3
01-29-2016, 10:03 PM
It is an undescribed wild species from the Solomon Islands

More info here:
http://www.bananas.org/f2/soloman-islands-bananas-14129.html

Very cool! How do they taste?

Gabe15
01-29-2016, 10:15 PM
Very cool! How do they taste?

What little pulp is in the fruit (it's mostly seed) tasted a little sour with almost no sweetness and left a distinctive but not alarming slight burning/scratching feeling in the back of my throat for a short time afterwards. A really neat plant, but I'd hardly consider the fruit even in the ranks of famine food. Perhaps if the pulp was fermented away from the seeds and cooked a little it could pass as palatable if that's all you had.