Bermy nana
09-14-2010, 07:28 PM
Thanks to this forum and after meeting Hydroid I have been combing Bermuda for different varieties of bananas. I even advertised on a local website. So far people have been offering me Manzanos but I already have those. It is amazing how many different names people give them...fig,strawberry,Apple, plantain. So today I took possession of a nice 24 inch red banana sword pup. The owner referred to it as a Cuban Red so I may have to wait a year or two before it produces fruit.
On my routes around Bermuda I noticed that almost every other house has banana trees, mostly Dwarf Cavendish but I am on a quest for the rarer varieties. So I have contacted a local farmer who is going to give me a Grande Nain.
Has anybody heard of a red banana that look like a Manzano? I have a lead on one of those too!
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36667&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36667&ppuser=8196)
On my routes around Bermuda I noticed that almost every other house has banana trees, mostly Dwarf Cavendish but I am on a quest for the rarer varieties. So I have contacted a local farmer who is going to give me a Grande Nain.
Has anybody heard of a red banana that look like a Manzano? I have a lead on one of those too!
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36667&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36667&ppuser=8196)