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Monte_Cristo banana internationally is the Bungulan, whose photos I posted earlier, and is called Kluai Hom Khieu/Kiau in Thailand, Pisang Ambon Lumut or Pisang Masak Hijau in Malysia and Indonesia, Hamakua in Hawaii.

It gets interesting when you try a search for various banana cultivars from Puerto Rico. Guineo Montecristo will bring you to 2 nursery sites, and each site has a different description of this.

One says that Guineo Montecristo is the same as Cavendish Var Jayuya in response to my enquiry - " JAyuya y Monte Cristo son lo mismo...solo que mi cv vino de Jayuya."

The other says that it is red when green(unripe) and yellowing with traces of red when ripe. This is more commonly known as "Morado" in South America and the Caribbean, and apparently hails from Monte Cristi area.

Then a third large nursery in PR that specializes in tropical fruit trees and palms, describe one of their banana variety as " 'Martinico' Gigante Gros Michel Banana". It goes further to describe the fruit as "It is a large, tall plant bearing long bunches of large yellow (sic) fruits. It produces excellent fruit with a slight sub-acid taste. The fruits are green (sic)when ripe." If the latter description (green when ripe) is the intended one for this particular variety, then it is possibly the one internationally known as Monte Cristo.