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wolfyhound
04-19-2013, 06:35 PM
On my commute, I kept swearing I'd seen giant banana trees. Then I'd try to look for them but couldn't find any. Finally today I stopped and walked back through a potato field and found this!
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=52687&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=52687&ppuser=15189)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=52686&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=52686&ppuser=15189)

A short video...
Secret banana grove - YouTube (http://t.co/ssJb14Ka0A)

I took more pictures too. Are these orinico? I was quite excited to find them! The area is pine forest, corn field, pines, houses, pines, pines, potato fields, pines, bananas, pines, pines... wait, what?

venturabananas
04-20-2013, 12:45 AM
Looks like Orinoco. Good find.

Worm_Farmer
04-20-2013, 03:09 PM
WOW, You are going to be cooking a lot of bananas soon.

wolfyhound
04-20-2013, 03:16 PM
Well, it's not MY land. Technically I shouldn't have even been on it, but curiosity drove me to trespass. From the look of it, they aren't being tended or harvested, just growing there though!

oakshadows
04-20-2013, 05:23 PM
Look up the land owner and maybe he or she will share if you offer some help. They might not know they are there. Good luck and good growing

2woodensticks
04-21-2013, 09:30 AM
are they up there by i 10??? maybe south on 301??..i know of two other patches up that way..i used to see them when i would get a load going up that way..and yes ORINOCO,good find

wolfyhound
04-21-2013, 09:39 AM
The farmland is for sale, so I'll be calling that number to see if I can talk to the landowner. And it's off Hwy 207, between Palatka and St Augustine(near Hastings) Florida.

There was also a GINORMOUS Iris bloom(actually a couple blooms) in a ditch there too.