in south america there is no "banana". if you ask someone to buy bananas you get a very puzzled look.
there are tons of types of banana. and none have this sweet, tutti frutty flavour the banana imported into the US has.
so, your wild banana is just one kind of a hundred.
south asia is the the same as south america, but with a whole lot of other kinds of bananas.... so there is plenty of variety other than cavendish and wild. most of the wild ones around brazil have almost invisible seeds. and are very easy to peel. and they go from huge (nanica... ironically means tiny) to very small ones (prata, ouro)
We're starting to get more kinds of bananas available here in the Asian groceries (who cater to just about anybody) -- 4 or 5 varieties. But I have no idea how to buy them. Half of them look bad on the shelf to my American banana buying eyes and I'm familiar enough with plantains to know that banana shaped fruits don't always taste like the bananas I grew up with.
Hell, I should just go buy some and see what they taste like.
On vacation in Indonesia I tasted lots of different varieties of very small bananas. They all had a lot more taste than the Cavendish. I wouldn't mind seeing those in European supermarkets, although they do indeed not look as nice as the Cavendish. For some reason we seem to select food by appearance instead of taste. (This is also why the standard Dutch tomato is beautifully red and tastes like water.)
Just buy them, then try to find recipes on the web.
That's how my wife and I always do it and over the years we've discovered a lot of very nice dishes we'd otherwise have never heard of. Just stay clear of black salsify -- it's tasty but very difficult to prepare without making a mess.
there are tons of types of banana. and none have this sweet, tutti frutty flavour the banana imported into the US has.
so, your wild banana is just one kind of a hundred.
south asia is the the same as south america, but with a whole lot of other kinds of bananas.... so there is plenty of variety other than cavendish and wild. most of the wild ones around brazil have almost invisible seeds. and are very easy to peel. and they go from huge (nanica... ironically means tiny) to very small ones (prata, ouro)