Natureboy

There's a banana bunch on vitin6039's avatar that looks like thousand fingers except the bananas turn red when ripe. What is it?

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Kegas76

Is it this thing?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...03b3dae780.jpg

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

Natureboy

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???

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Praying hands: a good way to thank God and a darn good banana, too!

Current varieties: Dwarf Namwah, FHIA-03 (Sweetheart), White Iholena, Maoli, Orinoco, Manzano (Apple), Praying Hands, Dwarf Brazilian, Pisang Raja, Rajapuri, Ice Cream (Blue Java), FHIA-01 (Goldfinger), Kandarian

Kat2

The fruit looks like prickly pear. Yes, I know it's not but the shape is similar.

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Gabe15

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.

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Kegas76

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/-Aftbv273Gk.../PA309665e.jpg

merce3

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

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Gabe15

It is an undescribed wild species from the Solomon Islands

More info here:
Soloman Islands bananas

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merce3

Very cool! How do they taste?

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Gabe15

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.

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