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Originally Posted by pitangadiego
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Frankie's is an amazing place, but unfortunately for Mark though, Frankie's is on Oahu, not Big Island. And he actually doesn't care too much for bananas funnily enough, he has a few, but the rest of his collection more than makes up for it as he has (what feels like) over 10 varieties of just about everything you could think of.
The Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden has a great collection of Hawaiian bananas and is a nice place to visit to see all kinds of Hawaiian plants. It is in south Kona.
Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden - Bishop Museum
Also in South Kona, Ken Love's 12 Trees Project on Napo'opo'o road, right next to the Kona coffee co-op, is a nice place to visit usually with some interesting fruiting bananas.
(for direction to 12 Trees, just find the co-op)
Kona Pacific Farmers Cooperative - Pure Kona Coffee
The Hilo farmer's market typically has some interesting bananas (and lots of other great things), there is a lady there that used to regularly sell fe'i too, but she or may not still be there.
Up in Hawi, Tom Baldwin of Uluwehi Farm used to have a very large banana collection, after talking with him recently though, it sounds like he lost much of it to bunchy top virus, but still has some interesting ones left.
You can call him at 808-889-5035.
Too bad we don't have it installed yet, but I'm putting in a small collection of newly introduced cultivars in Kona sometime later this year!