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Originally Posted by momoese
The gentleman I bought the original Pisang Klotek from imported it from Sri Lanka. He said it was called Pisang Klotek. Over the years it was ID'd by Gabe and others as Mysore. Are there any differences, who knows. I don't think anyone has grown and fruited PK next to Mysore yet.
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I agree that at this point, no one knows if Pisang Klotek is a distinct cultivar of Mysore or just Mysore with an exotic local name from Sri Lanka. I think the only relatively strong piece of evidence for it being a distinct cultivar within the Mysore subgroup is that it doesn't seem to get quite as tall as Mysore sometimes does. But as for appearance, I'm growing Pisang Klotek immediately adjacent to Pisang Ceylan (a Mysore clone that doesn't have the banana streak virus in its DNA), and I don't think it is possible to tell the two apart. Maybe they'll end up being different heights, but overall appearance is identical. Hopefully I'll get them both fruiting regularly and I'll be able to say something informed about whether there are any detectable differences between the plants or the fruit. From very limit experience, flavor-wise, Mysore is very similar to PK, but I've never tried them at the same time to compare them. My guess is they'll taste the same if grown in the same place at the same time. The best bananas I've ever tasted were Mysore. (For the record, I've had some pretty unimpressive Mysore, too, that were scrawny and undernourished.)