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Old 03-31-2014, 12:07 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Default Re: Dwarf Brazilian vs Manzano

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Originally Posted by keikikid View Post
So... Tiny mystery bananas, two inches, with delightful tartness, earliest hands prone to splitting, thin skin, not robust plants (so far!) may be Silk/Manzano? None of mine have had chalkiness or funky lumps, nor been astringent, and they keep quite well. One of my local friends tells me to stop trying to call the bananas anything but "Good Kine".
But the ID game is an awful lot of fun!
Try them when they have some green left on the peel. If they are the typical Silk subgroup "Manzano", they will be astringent and dry your mouth out.
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