Taste it? From what I read they are not poisonous just don't taste good or are full of seeds.

Thanks for the reply. I know I read something somewhere about the bloom being an indicator. The farther down it drooped, the more likely it was an edible (or something like that). It sounds kind of foolish though.

Many dwarf ornamentals have flowers that grow straight up, but I think there is also an edible type from Northern Australia that does that too. Musa bordelon grows kinda side ways, and then edibles grow downward, but so do alot of other non edible primitive types like Musa basjoo.

Interesting. Looks like there is no hard and fast rule. Thanks.

I tried one of the bananas I found off a tree that popped up on the other side of someones fence yesterday and it had the consisentency of a potato. I'm waiting for the others to be more yellow before I try. I'll try cooking it using some kind of plantain recipe if its still that way.

BTW someone had a pic of a dwarf raja puri where the flower just exploded out the sides of the plant.