Musa troglodytarum L.

A large herb. It forms clumps. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 4-5 m tall. It has a stout false stem. This often has a purple tinge. It secretes blood red sap. The leaves are long and dark green. The flower is erect. It bears thick blunt fleshy fruit. These may have a few or no seeds. The fruit are orange to orange-red when ripe. The fruit are 10-20 cm long. There are 5-30 fruit in a cluster.

A tropical plant. It suits the hot, wet tropical lowlands. It grows in inland mountain regions in Fiji.

The fruit are eaten cooked. They are starchy. Caution: The yellow flesh turns the urine red.

Plants are grown by division using suckers.