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Simply Bananas
08-18-2008, 10:03 AM
Downtown Charleston has a lot of intimate courtyards that occasionally are exempt from hard freezes. Often banana plants make it through the winter without losing any leaves.

This banana was found on a trash pile by a friend and replanted. It now has this fruit. It seems different from orinocos that are common. I told him about cutting off the male bud, but he may have done it too close. Any ideas on what this might be?

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=12471&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12471&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=12472&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12472&ppuser=226)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/porkpi/100_5983.jpg

Thanks

chong
08-18-2008, 02:07 PM
Still looks like Orinoco to me. Just that some fruits did not fill out properly. The filled out fruits, though, looks very Orinoco.

austinl01
08-18-2008, 02:45 PM
Maybe it's a new type of plant that we're not used to. Let's call it Charleston Silver.

natedogg1026
08-18-2008, 09:46 PM
Yea, Looks very Orinoco to me. See the four sides to the fruit. Quadrano's. Odd that the flag seems to be all green though. Maybe it's just the pic.

Chironex
08-18-2008, 11:17 PM
I agree that it looks somewhat like Orinoco, but it has some characteristics of Tuu Ghia. I have never seen the mature fruit of Tuu Ghia, therefore I don't know if it gets this large.
Some of the smaller fingers have an recurved shape it appears.