It is one of the most commonly cultivated bananas and a source of commercial Cavendish bananas.

The fruits of the Cavendish bananas range from about 15 to 25 cm in length, and are thin skinned.

Cavendish bananas entered the world market through populations that have existed in the Canary Islands since the fifteenth century.

They are smaller than the Lacatan cultivar and the commercially dominant Cavendish bananas.

It is inevitable, the experts say, that the fungus will eventually wipe out Cavendish bananas worldwide.

It is more expensive than the more common Latundan and Cavendish bananas.

This plant is the progenitor of almost all the worldwide varieties of Cavendish banana.

They are smaller and plumper than the common Cavendish banana.

They focus their attention on the popular Cavendish banana as these are the fruit of choice on markets in Europe.

Sweet little Cavendish bananas that sell for $1.60 a pound.