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Originally Posted by musaboru
The Thais consider Kluai Khai and Pisang Mas to be the same variety.
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Perhaps in the general public, just like here in the U.S. the general public considers Cavendish to be "banana" and those other funny colored and shaped bananas to be "plantains".
Thailand has a reputable Musa research facility and germplasm repository. The folks there are much more careful with nomenclature. A partial list of their holdings can be found in the international MGIS database:
http://195.220.148.3:8013/mgis_2/homepage.htm