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mango_kush
02-05-2010, 07:01 AM
<img src="http://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/userpics/30705/Blue-banana.jpg">

if so does anyone know the varieties of the white (AeAe?) and blue bananas?

Jack Daw
02-05-2010, 07:08 AM
I've seen similar pictures here on the org. One of them was maybe posted by Tog, one maybe by Gabe, it was about some banana market, but I'm not sure. All these varieties were there (this image is graphically enhanced) and they looked very unreal too, but were real in fact.

EDIT: If I recall well, the one in the left, green-whitish is Musa 'Ice Cream'. But I have no idea as to what are the other specimens. If you contacted someone like novisyatria, he might be able to translate those names for you, each bunch has its name on the shield and i think it looks like Malay language. But I might be wrong. Ae Ae's are variegated bananas, their leaf and fruit color is green with yellow and white stripes oriented lengthwise.

Dalmatiansoap
02-05-2010, 07:23 AM
I know only that white ones arent Aeae:ha:
:woohoonaner:

pitangadiego
02-05-2010, 09:59 AM
Why wouldn't it be?

momoese
02-05-2010, 10:08 AM
Yes it's real and I had someone translate the signs a long time ago but I'm not sure if that info was posted here or if I still have the info or not.

mango_kush
02-05-2010, 10:18 AM
i didnt think it was real because ive never seen bananas of such color.

i know AeAe is varigated but i figured there might be some variation

i wonder if they will grow here in 10b Florida and where to find them

sunfish
02-05-2010, 10:23 AM
http://www.bananas.org/f2/some-pictures-thailand-3832.html#post30782

momoese
02-05-2010, 10:39 AM
Thanks Tony!

pitangadiego
02-05-2010, 02:42 PM
There is a huge variety of bananas: definitely more than we see in the US. Start with any of our green to yellow bananas, add in the reds, and then Ice Cream with its silver/blue color. Then there are shapes, from small to large, slender, fat, blunt nosed, pointy nosed, etc. It would be nice of we had access to some of the varieties in the pix.

winsorw
02-05-2010, 02:52 PM
The Thai name of that particular banana (grayish) can be translated as 'glowing moon' or 'color of the moon' or something along that line. Other pictures of the same banana show graying green or very pale green.

mango_kush
10-14-2010, 02:19 PM
this is an old thread but i am still hunting for those beautiful white bananas, any updates?

mango_kush
11-16-2010, 04:58 PM
1 Bulb of Musa (ABB group) 'Kluai Nam Wa Naun Jun' Banana Plant, ThailandPlant.com (http://thailandplant.com/AmorphophallusAroidCrinumBulbTropicalPlant-product_detail.php?listid=143&plantSID=b4rska5j7agr2jldt8sklf65j2)

i think i found one, it doesnt look as white in there pics though