Weird Growth in Banana

Factual Questions
1

Today I peeled a banana that looked completely normal in the peel, but peeling it revealed a dark, mottled, spotty “bruise” running along one side about half the length of the banana starting from the non-stem end. I tried to gouge out the “bruise” with my fingers, but it turned out to be not a bruise but rather a fibrous, inedible growth that separated from the normal part of the banana in a coherent mass. There was a distinct, smooth boundary between the growth and the rest of the banana. The rest of the banana looked and tasted completely normal.

What is it? Banana cancer? An undeveloped twin? It may be significant that of the three bananas I’ve peeled out of the bunch, all three had the growth, although the growths vary in size.

2

Emphasis added by me.

You ate the bananna? YOU ATE THE BANANNA?

Dude, you are doomed. Doomed, I tell you. Hie thee to the ER, it will start growing any second. The sooner it is uprooted the better.

I don’t really know, but it sounds cool. Got any pictures?

3

I’m pretty sure it was a banana worm.

4

That was my thought as well.

5

Interestingly, I think that the banana worm itself is indistuishable from the banana itself. The dark hard spot is just part of it’s phallus.

I suppose it could be some type of odd growth, but how likely is that.

6

Did it look like this?

http://www.bspp.org.uk/publications/new-disease-reports/jan2007/2007-01.asp

7

A similar thread from my own younger days when I was less responsible with my thread titles: Diagnose my Hairy Banana

8

I could be misunderstanding it but bananas of the same variety are genetically identical http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-the-banana. You may be seeing the first signs of a banana apocalypse.

9

Whatever you do, don’t read the Stephen King story about the guy who drank the bad beer.

10

A day after eating the bananas I feel fine and no Alien-like being has burst forth from my viscera, showering screaming onlookers with gore as I writhe in agony.

I must add that although I described the growth as inedible, I did not actually try to eat it. For all I know it could be the next Iron Chef ingredient, or food craze like huitlacoche.