Mysuru: A 16-feet soaring single banana fruit bunch with more than 1,000 fruits in multiple clusters is quite rare. This unique fruit, known as the ‘1,000-finger banana,’ is the highlight of the three-day Banana Festival, which opened at Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry on Vinoba Road in the city this morning.
This variety, also known as ‘pisang seribu’ in Malay or ‘ayiram poovan’ locally in Kerala, bears up to 1,000 small, 1.5-2-inch fruits and is the prized possession of Abaneesh from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, one of the participants at the festival. He is the son of Vinod Sahadevan Nair, known for conserving many local and exotic varieties of bananas.
