Z-Banana

Z-Bananas are a type of Banana that appear on the DK's Jungle Ruins board in Mario Party 9. They are purple-colored bananas acting as the equivalent to Mini Ztars (or Ztars; also called Shadow Stars or Z-Stars) in this board. Like Bananas, Z-Bananas appear singularly or in bunches across the board; collecting one causes the player to lose one Banana, and collecting a bunch causes them to lose three. It is possible to receive Z-Bananas in the second Captain Event of DK's Jungle Ruins, but there are none in the Boss Minigames of the board.

Trivia
Z-Bananas strongly resemble the Tin Banana Tu from the Donkey Kong Country TV series.