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Originally Posted by Tytaylor77
Man that’s a hard one! Amazing job by Gabe. I agree it’s a namwa. The spacing, fruit not pointing upwards, light markings on the fruit, and the bunch angle is very strange! I guess due to conditions and the storms effect! First look does NOt look like namwa haha.
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The angle of the bunch can change drastically depending on bunch size. Namwahs tend to start out somewhat angular, and then become more pendant as the bunch gets older and heavier. As you can see, this bunch is very small, and so it is unlikely to become any more pendant. The bud (during both female and male stages) is also somewhat slender and very pointed towards the tip, 'Ice Cream' tends to be more plump, somewhat less pointed.
And finally, if you notice where the pedicels merge with the raceme, they become fused into a large flat "pad" at the node, and the separation between the pedicels is basically lost. This is a classic Namwah trait that is absent in 'Ice Cream'. In 'Ice Cream', the pedicels join on a relatively large pad, but you can still clearly see the discrete sections of the pedicel bases on the pad that run all the way to the node.