I just got the new banana book by Angela Kepler. I've only glanced through it, but it seems like a real masterpiece!
It's a large format book, like Morton's, and also encyclopedic in nature, 585 pages but has lots more color photos throughout, lots of charts, and seems very well organized so anyone can understand it. I think Angela spent about 10 years reasearching this one. A real beaut! Bad news is that it's only available hard cover and it's not cheap: $80. No, i'm not selling it.
But i'm glad i forked over the bucks. I'm very pleased! Only available through University of Hawaii press:
www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8749-9780983726609.aspxThere is a lot of original work done on the Hawaiian type bananas, previously unclassified, but includes all bananas, even including some of the ornamental ones.
Will give more detailed report when i fully delve into it. But it's the kind of book that might take me 10 years to fully absorb. Tons of information!
Oscar