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Wandering
06-11-2017, 05:59 AM
Hi
I am in Australia, on the west coast where we have very limited access to named and proven types of bananas.
I bought this one from a local rare fruit grower as a 'Blue Java' but I am not convinced and thought I would put the pics up here to see what it might be?

Here are the pictures I have so far: Banana Gallery - Banana from Local Supplier (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=2801)
It fruited this year for the first time, height at fruiting is 3.2m - 10ft (colder climate here).
Hope the link works - new to this :)

Thank you for your help :)

HMelendez
06-11-2017, 07:20 AM
Hi
I am in Australia, on the west coast where we have very limited access to named and proven types of bananas.
I bought this one from a local rare fruit grower as a 'Blue Java' but I am not convinced and thought I would put the pics up here to see what it might be?

Here are the pictures I have so far: Banana Gallery - Banana from Local Supplier (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=2801)
It fruited this year for the first time, height at fruiting is 3.2m - 10ft (colder climate here).
Hope the link works - new to this :)

Thank you for your help :)



Congrats for the fruiting bunch!....


Definitely is not a Blue Java Ice Cream 'Nana but resembles The Pisang Awak means Namwah 'Nana!.....Hopefully it helps!....

Tytaylor77
06-11-2017, 02:55 PM
It's for sure not a blue java ice cream. I agree looks more like a namwa to me also. Great banana congrats!

venturabananas
06-11-2017, 08:16 PM
It's not Pisang Awak/"Namwah". Doesn't look exactly like Ice Cream, but closer to that than Pisang Awak. Looks to be in the Bluggoe ("Orinoco") / Ney Mannan ("Ice Cream") range, but I'm not sure. Gabe?

scottu
06-11-2017, 09:32 PM
Musa Blue Java (Ice Cream) - Bananas Wiki (http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_Blue_Java_%28Ice_Cream%29)

Narnia
06-11-2017, 11:33 PM
The plant looks healthy - do you put fertilizer around it?

Wandering
06-12-2017, 12:28 AM
Narnia - Yes I do regularly fertilise it and it gets a decent amount of water for our climate (hot and dry in summer, cool and wet in winter).

Thanks all for your ideas on what it could be :)

We have Namwah types here (called Ducasse here in Oz) and this one is different to my dwarf Namwah (much taller and more slender), and the fruit looks a different shape to the Namwah I have seen here. This fruit is more angular than I thought Namwah are. But I am new to all this :)

Narnia
06-12-2017, 01:15 AM
Do you just have the one (unknown) variety growing?

Wandering
06-12-2017, 02:27 AM
Do you just have the one (unknown) variety growing?

I also have one named 'Lady Finger' here too, which I am not sure if it is a true lady finger or not :)
We also have one of the cavendish types, that seems to be a dwarf cavendish that goes by the name of Canarvon banana here.
And I have a pup of one locally sourced called 'Goldfinger' which I am not sure is the same as the real Goldfinger.

Plus I have what we call dwarf ducasse (dwarf namwah), dwarf red dacca and tissue culture blue java - who I am hoping will flower next year so I can compare to my unknown blue java.

Wandering
09-07-2017, 09:36 AM
Just wondering if there are any further thoughts on my mystery banana? The fruit has held on all winter (Australia) which is nice, I am hoping it will ripen soon!

venturabananas
09-07-2017, 09:55 AM
Just wondering if there are any further thoughts on my mystery banana? The fruit has held on all winter (Australia) which is nice, I am hoping it will ripen soon!

Do you have any new photos for us to look at to help with the ID?

Wandering
09-08-2017, 05:58 AM
Not really, the bananas have just held pretty much the same size and shape through out winter. I am just curious if they are a type of bluggoe as you suggested and what type of bluggoe they might be?
We have so few known proven varieties where I am it is hard to know what they could be as they still do not have the blue colour of the blue java, and are more angular than I thought NamWah are.