Beginner Gardening: Dwarf Banana Musa acuminata 'High Color Mini' self-fertile?, 1 by Metrosideros

Metrosideros wrote:
If the plant is a cultivar used to produce edible fruit, it is not Musa acuminata, but is a sterile triploid hybrid.

Musa acuminata is a parent of all edible bananas, but itself produces fruit with buck-shot like seed that is not good for eating.

If the 'High Color Mini' is an edible cultivar, then it's proper name is Musa 'High Color Mini', and you won't need to cross pollen from another plant as you aren't producing seed. (The proper name for the Cavendish or Chinese banana is Musa 'Cavendish'.)

Crossing plants of Musa acuminata is only necessary when producing seed.
Edible bananas produce sterile fruit, and are propagated by division.

Below is Musa acuminata syn. M. sumatrana, M. zebrina.