APPEARANCE 
Totally cute, small, yellow banana with pale, off-white flesh.
AROMA
Strong, flowery, banana fragrance with a little bit of something bright, maybe pineapple.
TEXTURE
Soft with a cool feel. Dry!
TASTE 
Yummy combination of banana and pineapple and maybe a bit of strawberry.
OVERALL
This is a diva of a banana if ever I saw one. You have to wait to eat it until the skin is black (not just a little black: BLACK) otherwise it is just “blah” with a tannic aftertaste. But, if you wait (and I mean WAIT – like three weeks well past what you think is a reasonable wait for a banana) then you will be rewarded with a tropical disco in your mouth — smooth, creamy, pineapply, strawberry, banana love. Oh and then the taste will linger and linger until eventually you think, “What is that weird flavor in my mouth? Oh – Is it STILL that banana? Good lord!” (This banana made me wait so long to eat it that I am overwhelmed with the use of ALLCAPS).
FRUIT
Banana
VARIETY
Manzano
PEAK
All Year
GROWN
Colombia
PURCHASED
Grocery Store
NOTES
Some think the banana is good for fertility (hmm), while others are so convinced that the banana is bad luck that they won’t even let their comrades wear fruit of the loom undies. These seem like a tragic confluence of the two.
WEIRD TOOLS
If you like bananas, have you seen this? That has to be the craziest and most pointless kitchen tool I’ve seen yet. I would love to hear more about the bananas you’ve tried as well as crazy kitchen tools you have or use. You can see the very short list of kitchen tools I like here.
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Amy // Dec 21, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I love your site!! And I LOVE these tiny bananas, with their tangy, apple-y flavor. They’re a thousand times better than the “normal” kind. I used to eat them all the time when I lived in Hawaii, where they actually sell these at the regular grocery store. They’re so worth the wait.
D jacobs // Mar 13, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Thanks for the info on this fruit . I bought a few bundles n thought id give em a try but the have yet to get ripe so thought I’d do some research before I thought they werr rotten n pointless to buy again.
Davina // Mar 18, 2011 at 7:39 pm
thanks for posting this! I just bought a bunch of manzanos. I ate one thinking it was ripe (it would have been by Cavendish standards) and was wondering whether they were cooking bananas. Now I know what to look forward to, I’ll be patient!
Fruit Maven // Apr 19, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I hope y’all liked them after they ripened!
jojo // Jan 17, 2012 at 6:51 am
nice banana