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Banana varieties
Four cultivars. Different names, different family trees.
Cultivar names and groups: University of Hawai‘i, CTAHR.
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Field notesHow bananas
How bananas
grow
One banana is a “finger.” A cluster is a “hand.” The hands grow around a central stem to make a bunch.
As bananas ripen, starch turns into sugar. Peel color is a useful clue, but variety and growing conditions also affect the fruit.
Reading & photo credits
- University of Hawai‘i: banana general information
- UC Davis: banana ripening and quality
- Iowa State University: storing bananas
Interactive ripeness illustration made for this site. The photograph is licensed separately under CC BY-SA 3.0; the original file is included unchanged.