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Botanical_Bryce · 02-12-2018, 05:21 PM

So I can not get a straight answer from most people on this. My general understanding is that all Lacatan sold in the United States is a cavendish variety from South America. This does not stop it being sold as the best banana in the Philippines even though the Philippine one is another variety of the AA type. Without mentioning names one retailer uses both spellings Lacatan and Lakatan and calls it the best tasting banana in the Philippines yet the two spellings are two different plants according to certain sources. I think even Agristarts calls it a Philippine banana and uses a stolen picture from Pro Musa which would be wrong if what they are selling does not make the fruit in their stolen photo.

How if the Lacatan/Lakatan sold in the states is all cavendish AAA type, how in the world with all this mixed information does one sort out the truth and get the true Lakatan which is truly the real deal from the Philippines? Is it just a dream that will never come true to get the real one? Everyone says they have the real one but nobody seems to verify it as the AA type.

To make things even more screwed up I had people tell me the one in the Philipines is an AAA Type. My mind is blown on this.

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