Thousand Fingers Bananas (Musa Pisang Seribu)

Thousand Fingers bananas look similar to more familiar banana varieties such as Cavendish, but are only 1 and ½ inches long. The skin is green ripening to bright yellow and the flesh paler yellow. Thousand Fingers bananas are seedless. The texture is soft and the flavor is very sweet and similar to the flavor of more standard bananas found in American grocery stores. Banana plants are not actually trees, they are classified as herbs that grow for only one reproductive cycle. The solid green colored Thousand Fingers banana tree grows fast, up to 12 feet tall in just a few weeks. The bunches of fruits grow all along a stem, which itself is 8 to 10 feet long. Each plant produces hundreds or thousands of bananas, as the name suggests.