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Originally Posted by Darkman
SO....
it is a Tall Namwah and not an IC?
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That's a good question Darkman! There's a lot of confusion surrounding the Ice Cream variety. When I got mine last year, I thought there was only one Ice Cream. But I was told later that year that there's an original variety in the South Pacific and Hawaii that is a related but totally different variety. It's been dubbed the "real Ice Cream." For some reason, the variety sold in the US as "Ice Cream" is actually a Namwah type that's closely related to Dwarf Namwah and Tall Namwah. However, it seems that the general consensus on bananas.org is that the Namwah Ice Cream (the Ice Cramwah
) actually is a tougher plant with better tasting fruit than the "real" Ice Cream. From my own experiences I would recommend this variety in a second to anyone. It's been the hardiest, most cold tolerant and fastest to flower of all my other varieties. Can't say anything for taste yet though haha