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Old 10-15-2019, 02:21 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Default Re: Nieghbors mystery banana

The plant shown has a horizontal bunch with tightly spaced hands, even though its young, you can see the position of the peduncle is horizontal (a trait that rarely changes with maturity), and the male bud has turned downwards which is classic for Pome subgroup bananas (of which Dwarf Brazilian and Raja Puri are members).

You can also see a pink-red flush on the compound tepals, and large pink free tepals, both common to Dwarf Brazilian and Raja Puri.

Cavendish cultivars have white flowers with no pink hues anywhere, and (except for some of the extra dwarf mutants), vertically falling pendant bunches which start out that way.

Black markings on the petiole bases are common to both Pome and Cavendish bananas, and relatively wide leaves are common to basically all dwarfs.

Dwarf Brazilian and Raja Puri are extremely closely related, grown in the same environment Raja Puri tends to be shorter and stockier, but in isolation and depending on conditions they can be nearly identical until flowering, and then only a few small detailed traits of the floral can separate them in my experience.
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