Banana

Banana, Bananas. Colored pencil drawing on 9"x12" Bristol board. Click on image to enlarge.

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Left photo: Bananas in my kitchen for eating, cooking and drawing the above illustration. Above, the Cavendish (yellow, forefront) is imported not for its taste which is mild but more for its hardy properties for export from SE Asia. They are shipped green and "gassed" in air-tight rooms filled with ethylene to aid the ripening process. Unlike the natives that don't make it to the beauty contest but are the sweetest, cutest (some are only as long as a woman's or child's fingers) and richest flavored bananas. Recently some stores that cater to immigrants are starting to import less common varieties such as the many varieties of plantain and manzano bananas.

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Saging (Banana)

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Read about the 149 or more banana cultivars in Southeast Asia.
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We have bananas today!

Continuing my Fruity series.