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jooonbug
12-05-2015, 02:14 AM
About a year ago I ordered a manzano and "ice-cream" plant from Wellspring Gardens on Ebay. One died, and I foolishly didn't label them, so now I don't know which one is the surviving variety.

It's still pretty small (about 10 inches tall). Are the varieties different enough that y'all could distinguish it if I posted a picture?

(I took some pics earlier, but they came out blurry for some reason, so I'll take more tomorrow).

Mark Dragt
12-05-2015, 12:42 PM
I am going to guess that your plants came to you as tissue cultures. A 10 inch plant after 1 year must have been small to start with. Saying that, I doubt that your Ice cream plant survived. I doubt that you had a Ice Cream plant to start with. As tissue cultures go, Ice cream banana plants usually turn out to be Namwah. Not a big deal. Many members are happy with a Namwah over a Ice Cream. I myself have a Namwah that was bought as a Ice Cream. A Namwah has a slightly pinkish midrib. Ice Cream does not.
Manzano I have no idea.
Posting picts would help. Look through my picts and there is a Namwah about the size of your plant. Mine is planted in a stainless steel washing machine tub.

jooonbug
12-06-2015, 03:20 AM
Thanks Mark, here's a picture:

http://i.imgur.com/ZG3siHD.jpg

venturabananas
12-06-2015, 08:44 PM
It's very hard to tell with small, tissue-culture plants, but this one does not look like an ABB variety, which would rule out the "real" or "fake" Ice Cream varieties. It also doesn't look much like Manzano, at least larger plants of that variety, but maybe it will grow into the normal traits.