Yes, we have red bananas!

They're bananas but not as we know them – and they are coming to a supermarket near you. Different shapes and colours for familiar fruits and vegetables seem to be a common sight these days – and red bananas are the latest offering from Morrisons.

The supermarket chain has just introduced the unusual coloured bananas to its shelves at its stores across the Black Country and West Midlands. And bosses say the red skinned fruit from South America is enticing customers with its unique colour, sweet taste and small, plump size.

Grown slower than their yellow counterparts, the red banana plant takes 10 months to fruit, six months to mature and a further five days to ripen so that the bananas are ready to eat.

With a sweet raspberry taste and creamy white pink flesh, they can be eaten raw or used in baking.

Anthony Forbes, Trading Manager for Produce said; "We like to offer our customers a wide range of fresh fruit to cater for all tastes, including The Best, Organic, Fairtrade and more unusual varieties such as this.

"As we are the only supermarket to sell red bananas, they are already proving extremely popular with our customers, and we expect that they will fly off the shelves over the coming weeks."

In the Black Country, stores in Bilston and Wednesbury were waiting for fresh supplies to come in while the Walsall branch has some in supply.

Craig Ballinger, produce sales assistant at the Walsall store, said customers were intrigued by the unusual colour. "People are trying them because they are something different," said Craig.

But like most of the bizarre and exotic fruits and vegetables available on the grocery counters, customers will find that they will have to pay more than they would for their usual counterparts.