In 29 years, Martz has amassed over 21,000 labels. Her passion has taken her on excursions to see collections in Germany, Costa Rica and Ecuador, and to banana label collectors meetings around the world. When she's in Florida, the 70-year-old fishes for discarded peels in the trash to secure a label.
"For some reason, that makes them even more precious to me. I have rescued many labels from the trash, or a banana peel on the ground. I feel sad when I see someone has thrown a peel away with the label still on it, so I rescue it," she told CNN.
Soon, she was filing the fruit labels in photo albums. Martz's son helped her navigate the early internet of the early '90s, which connected the collector to an international community of label lovers, and a new world of labels opened up.
Her rarest label is a Jacko label from the 1960s, of a little boy with hair fashioned to look like bananas.