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pitangadiego
01-31-2010, 04:51 PM
Found this banana at a fellow plant collector's home. He had no ID on it.

http://webebananas.com/bpix/BP954-20.jpg

http://webebananas.com/bpix/BP954-21.jpg

http://webebananas.com/bpix/BP954-22.jpg

http://webebananas.com/bpix/BP954-23.jpg

momoese
01-31-2010, 11:44 PM
It has the color and size. Gabe?

pitangadiego
02-01-2010, 12:28 AM
Mitchel, That was my assessment, from the few pix I had seen previously. Definitely doesn't look like the Ele Ele I had, or the one I have now, but I was never convinced that either of mine was the real deal as they had no black in them, at all, as I had expected. Even my Goldfinger had more coloration.

Gabe15
02-01-2010, 01:56 PM
Ya Ele'ele is a reasonable guess, of course a bunch photo would help tons. The color is variable depending on conditions and variety (there are at least 2 forms of Ele'ele), I've seen them pretty much green with tints of reddish-purple all the way to full deep black.

Here are some photos of a specimen with similar coloration to the unknown plant above.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29407&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29407&ppuser=5)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29406&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29406&ppuser=5)

pitangadiego
02-01-2010, 09:05 PM
Gabe, Thanx. I don't beliebe that they have fruited, yet, though two are quite tall. This was the first time I had seen a banana with coloration like this, which I uderstood to be typical of Ele Ele. What should the bananas look like? Anything distinctive?

sunfish
04-23-2011, 11:46 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=42068&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42068&ppuser=2868)

Rmplmnz
06-24-2011, 08:00 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43463&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43463)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43464&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43464)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43465&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43465)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43462&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43462)


Banana Racemes Ice Cream, Saba & Ele Ele
June 11, 2011 Tampa, FL

Gabe15
06-24-2011, 08:48 PM
Looking back at those old photos from the beginning of the thread, I think they are the black M. balbisiana, not 'Ele'ele.

pitangadiego
06-24-2011, 11:19 PM
That would mean seeded fruit if and when, right?

Rmplmnz
06-25-2011, 10:16 AM
The Ele Ele's I have seen are only black at the top of the pseudo-stem and the base of new leaves. The 2nd & 4th pictures has significant black at the base of the pseudo-stem.

Kostas
06-25-2011, 03:01 PM
Awesome picture Chris!!!
I see your Ele Ele has persistent male flowers while the one in Gabe's picture doesn't. At what height does yours flowers?

Rmplmnz
06-25-2011, 05:51 PM
Awesome picture Chris!!!
I see your Ele Ele has persistent male flowers while the one in Gabe's picture doesn't. At what height does yours flowers?

Thanks Konstantinos!

Hmmnn..I am guessing around 12 feet.

I will post more pics when we harvest:-)

Chris