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robguz24
11-25-2012, 06:17 PM
I bought this locally about a year ago as a Ha'a Ha'a sword sucker. While it is a beautiful plant, with lots of red and sort of yellow, it is almost certainly not a true Ha'a Ha'a, and probably not even an iholena type. No red cigar leaf.

Any idea what this is or what else it is called? Pretty distinctive looking. No flower or fruit yet. Full size pics in my gallery.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51451&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51451)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51454&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51454)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51452&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51452)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51453&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51453)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51455&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51455)

Also I find the wing at the beginning of the leaf kind of unusual...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51456&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51456)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51457&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51457)

pushak513
11-25-2012, 06:56 PM
IDK what it is but for some reason I want one

caliboy1994
11-25-2012, 07:06 PM
Looks a lot like Kru. Really pretty plant.

venturabananas
11-26-2012, 01:55 AM
Caliboy is getting good. I was thinking Kru, too. If so, that should be pretty obvious when it fruits and makes red fruit. Beautiful plant.

Magilla Gorilla
11-26-2012, 11:05 PM
Aloha Rob,
I trust all is well. I would say Kru as well. Did you get it locally here in Hawaii? Let me know when it fruits and pups.

Worm_Farmer
11-27-2012, 09:42 AM
It looks like a Red Kru, if so you will love the color show when it flowers. The only comment I would make is that my Red Kru's leafs always looked kind of haggard and bad. Yours has great looking leafs on it! I am not sure about Ha's Ha's but once your fruit is ripe it will have an orange colored flesh and the fruit from what I remember always grows facing a weird direction. From what I can see in the pic right now, it may flower around April / May then we can get a better ideal of what you have there.

robguz24
11-27-2012, 01:28 PM
Checked out the Wiki page on Kru and it looks very similar! So I'm guessing now that's what it is. I bought this locally from the same guy who also sold me a "Kru" that is green. When I asked him if he had a red Kru he didn't even know there was such a thing. He's also the one who sold me a Raja Puri that turned out to be a Gros Michel. At least the Mysore I got from him is correct. I also have a red Kru that I got from Aloha Tropicals, which looks quite different.

Tried posting the images of my two other supposed Kru but can't upload images anymore. Apparently my photo library size is way beyond the limit. :(
Figured out photobucket and posted the pics of the others below....

robguz24
11-27-2012, 03:44 PM
For comparison here is the green Kru I have:

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b508/robguz24/green_kru1.jpg

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b508/robguz24/green_kru2.jpg

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b508/robguz24/green_kru3.jpg

And the one I bought as red Kru from Aloha Tropicals. This is NOT the same as the plant at the top of the thread.

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b508/robguz24/red_kru4.jpg

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b508/robguz24/red_kru1.jpg

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b508/robguz24/red_kru2.jpg

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b508/robguz24/red_kru3.jpg

Yug
11-27-2012, 11:52 PM
I don't think it is a Kru for the simple reason that the petiole channels on the Kru are tightly closed, and the other one isn't.

Gabe - care to chime in?

caliboy1994
11-27-2012, 11:58 PM
I was thinking the same thing. Kru, which does not have any B genes, should not have closed petiole canals.