The Banana Reference Guide

A plain, sourced guide to bananas — the plant, ripening, Cavendish and Gros Michel, and Panama disease — with a comparison table that keeps extension advice, USDA nutrient figures and FAO disease notes labelled, and credited public-domain and CC BY photographs.

What’s inside:

- How to use this guide

- A herb, not a tree

- Flowers, hands and fingers

- Ripening

- A 100 gram USDA record

- Cavendish, and Gros Michel

- Panama disease and Tropical Race 4

- A sourced comparison table

- Credits and sources

Pages: 11 (A4) / 11 (US Letter). Formats: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Most inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; the cover is dark, so print that in colour or skip it to save ink.

Every fact is written in our own words and checked against named sources (CTAHR “Banana General Information”, USDA FoodData Central (FDC ID 173944), and FAO banana genetic and TR4 publications), checked 15 November 2026. The sources are listed on the credits page. Where extension advice, USDA nutrient figures and FAO disease notes sit side by side, they stay labelled.

Images are public-domain, CC0 or CC BY photographs, credited on the credits page, and resized with no other changes. Captions say when a picture is mid-ripening, a young plant, or a garden bunch. This pack is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the University of Hawai‘i, the United States Department of Agriculture, or the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind bananas.fruits.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.

Price: $5.99 USD.