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Originally Posted by venturabananas
Maybe Going Bananas does have the Mysore type Samoan Misi Luki, but I don't know.
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The 'Misi Luki' at Going Bananas is the Pisang Awak.
If your story is true, it is not incomprehensible that it was mis-ID'd from the start. They are both (Mysore and Pisang Awak) very common bananas all throughout the Pacific (and beyond), and often people are mixing up names, especially on bananas which are superficially similar. People often just consider the fruit, and if they are not experts, then it is reasonable to see how someone could give the wrong name since both cultivars are sweet and small fruited.
It is my experience that unless someone really cares about crop varieties and knows their stuff, then they will mix up names and generalize characteristics very frequently, basically lumping all kinds of varieties under the same name. In the US (especially Hawaii), this is the case of the names "Apple" and "Ladyfinger". To many people, "Apple" refers to both 'Dwarf Brazilian' and 'Brazilian', and also to 'Namwah' more recently. "Ladyfinger" refers to any dessert banana that is smaller than a Cavendish and obviously not "Apple", which encompasses a handful of common varieties.