Cavendish-Banana

Cavendish bananas are the fruits of one of a number of banana cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the AAA banana cultivar group. The same term is also used to describe the plants on which the bananas grow.

They include commercially important cultivars like ‘Dwarf Cavendish‘ (1888) and ‘Grand Nain‘ (the “Chiquita banana”). Since the 1950s, these cultivars have been the most internationally traded bananas.^[1] They replaced the Gros Michel banana (commonly known as Kampala banana in Kenya and Bogoya in Uganda)^[2] after it was devastated by Panama disease.