[1] Young plants have maroon or purple blotches on their leaves but quickly lose them as they mature.

It is believed that some of them may have ended up in the Canary Islands,[5] though other authors believe that the bananas in the Canary Islands had been there since the fifteenth century and had been introduced through other means, namely by early Portuguese explorers who obtained them from West Africa and were later responsible for spreading them to the Caribbean.

[2] African bananas in turn were introduced from Southeast Asia into Madagascar by early Austronesian sailors.

[9] An easily recognizable characteristic of this cultivar is that the male bracts and flowers are not shed.

The fruits of the Dwarf Cavendish cultivar range from about 15 to 25cm in length, and are thin skinned.