Originally Posted by Gabe15

It is very much a real plant, I was on the scientific team who discovered and documented it for the scientific community in PNG in 2016, and I have personally documented and photographed a number of individual specimens in PNG in 2016 and 2019. We were hoping to be able to find a way to commercially release it strategically and have the proceeds go back to the communities where it comes from, or to support banana conservation in PNG, but unfortunately some people followed our tracks from our reports and went to collect the plants and superseded us. Unlike many variegated bananas, it actually does seem to be able to withstand tissue culture and produce true to type plants, so I expect they will be widely available and cheap one day.

We also have genetic data on it that is not yet published, but is part of a group of related ornamental cultivars of still mysterious origin, and we found at least 5 distinct color forms in this group so far.