Delicious Baby Banana

This is a delicious baby banana, properly the cultivar Musa acuminata (AA Group) 'Lady Finger'.  The skin is delicate and thin, and the flesh is quite sweet compared to the bland flavor of the common Cavendish banana.

As banana plants are propagated by tissue (and so are genetically identical), they do not evolve disease resistance.  This variety is quite vulnerable to Panama disease, a fungus that has decimated past commercial banana crops.