"13. A variety called Musa paradisiaca ulnaris.  This is only known to the negritos inhabiting the hills of Balanga, who brought down the fruits to the people below.   Those who have seen and eaten the fruit, say that it is as thick as the human thigh and a yard long, and bears seeds.  If cooked it resembles in taste that of tandok.   Blanco believes it to be a romance, and adds that the negritos say that the raceme produces but one fruit."

I have not yet seen Father Blanco's 1845 publication but his scepticism as to the size of this banana is well founded.  Simmonds 1962 comments on the reputed size of some bananas and writes that "stories to the effect that there are fruits so large that two men are needed to lift them appear from time to time; they are not to be believed."