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Blue Java bananas
Five varieties of bananas: from left, two pairs of Monkey bananas and a triplet of Ducasse from Cotters Market, one over-ripe Cavendish with one ripe Red Dacca above it and three of my own under-ripe...
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Wild bananas
Banana plant growing wild in the bush near Murray Falls Anyone who has spent much time in our lowland tropical rainforest will have seen stray banana plants and clumps growing, apparently, wild. But...
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More bananas
The banana clump before clean-up – obviously healthy but choked with dead leaves and whole plants An environmental group I volunteer with has its office in an old (1920s) house whose backyard has...
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Langsat and other tropical fruits
Langsat Another visit to Cotters Market, another selection of tropical fruit … I have been here 25 years but I’m still enjoying discovering fruit that I knew nothing about as a child in country...
View ArticleLady Finger Bananas
Continuing my slow-motion exploration of banana varieties … It’s easy to see why there is so much confusion between these Lady Finger and the Sugar Bananas (Ducasse): they are almost the same size. The...
View ArticleDucasse banana seed – an exceptionally rare find
As most of us know, all of our cultivated bananas are sterile clones and those little black dots in the middle of the fruit are immature seeds which will never develop. Getting a real seed out of a...
View ArticleBlue Java bananas come to fruition at last
Five years ago I swapped a sucker of my Ducasse bananas for a Blue Java sucker. I promptly put it in the ground and waited, and was disappointed, and waited, and was frustrated as detailed here. I kept...
View ArticleBackyard bananas – an update
Anyone searching Green Path for “banana” will get a lot of results but none which give any sense of what has been happening in my garden recently. A reader sent me a compliment, a request and an offer...
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