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Gros Michel a large and vigorous plant it bears heavy, symmetrical bunches of 1 to 15 hands of large fruit, the fruits are bottlenecked with a tapered point, bright yellow when ripe and maintains its color, resistant to bruising, and ripens uniformly. The Gros Michel appears to be a native in Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Ceylon. The Gros Mechel first appeared in the new world in Martinique early in the i9th century, possibly by a naval officer Baudin, who introduced numerous Asian Plants to the Botanic Garden at St. Pierre. It was known there as Figue Baudin and was taken from there to Jamaica in 1835 by Jean Francois Pouyat where it became known as the Pouyat or Martinique and then later known as Gros Michel. This variety was introduced in the Pacific around the turn of the century from Jamaica to Fiji in1891, Australia in 1910 and to Hawaii by way of Nicaragua in 1903
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