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Originally Posted by robguz24
The PJB and Monkey Fingers are quite different. I thought they were supposed to be the same. So PJB is Crocodile Fingers it seems, but is there another name for Monkey Fingers, the plant with the huge rack?
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No doubt these two bananas are significantly different.
Don has a pic on the Going Bananas web site of a Monkey Finger raceme with 18 hands of fruit:
Going Bananas of Homestead Florida Banana & Banana Plant Descriptions FINGER
Again we are back to nomenclature.
A friend came over to our garden yesterday with his Caribbean girlfriend and she was quick to correct me that one of the plants we were discussing was a "plantain" and not a "banana". I tried as eloquently as possible to explain that her boyfriend was experiencing bananas with an open mind and that as knowledgeable as some people are that grow up with tropical fruits it is difficult to perceive plants differently than the mind set we grew up with. She took one look at the Ele Ele banana I gave her and stated they were very common in Puerto Rico (until I peeled it and the pulp was orange tinted). She smiled and opened her mind to banana varietal information....
Rob, I apologize as I know this does not answer your question. I like how bananas are discussed in Moorea and Tahiti (French Polynesia) where they refer to bananas two ways. You are looking for Bananas to eat or Bananas to cook?