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Old 02-05-2013, 07:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Are These The AAA Williams Cultivar?

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I'm trying to identify the exact cultivar or cultivars of these bananas. They are the most common type growing and at markets in in the Rio Chirripo area of Costa Rica. I thought they might be Williams, of the the AAA group of bananas.

The taste is similar to cavendish, but when fully ripe they have a hint of butterscotch.

It seems to me that there are actually two different types here.

The longer and thinner ones, seen still on a hand of bananas, taste and ripen a bit different than the shorter, fatter ones.

Neither tastes or ripens like any of the cavendish types I get back in the US.

Any idea?

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