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Simply Bananas
07-06-2009, 10:50 AM
I took an hour or so Sunday and rode around looking at some banana plants. I am always amazed at the cross section of folks in community that grow them. Race or wealth seem not to matter. I shot a lot of these pictures from my van as I feared a restraining order.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19050&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19050&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19055 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19053&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19058&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19058&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19056&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19056&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19049&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19049&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19052&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19052&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19051&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19051&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19041&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19041&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19042&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19042&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19043&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19043&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19044&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19044&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19045&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19045&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19060&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19060&ppuser=226)

The last one has a nice new bunch!

Simply Bananas
07-06-2009, 10:58 AM
The first three pictures here are some type of ornamental bananas I believe. Let me know if you have an idea of what they are.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19046&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19046&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19057&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19057&ppuser=226)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19059&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19059&ppuser=226)


The last four pictures are at a bed and breakfast. They got the plants from me about 4 years ago.
From left to right--
Ice Cream, Itinerans(sold to me as that), and Saba with bloom.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19047&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19047&ppuser=226)

Ice Cream http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19048&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19048&ppuser=226)

What was sold to me as Musa itinerans http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19054&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19054&ppuser=226)

The shooting Saba. http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=19053 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19054&ppuser=226)

Bob
07-06-2009, 11:30 AM
Thanks, great pics poster formerly known as porkpi!:ha:

harveyc
07-06-2009, 11:41 AM
I would have to drive at least 80 miles to find that many bananas around here!

Do you typically see many with fruits later in summer? I think I've only seen one plant (besides my own) within 30 miles of me with fruit.

momoese
07-06-2009, 11:45 AM
One of these days I need to do the same thing. I keep saying that....

Thanks for sharing!

Simply Bananas
07-06-2009, 01:40 PM
I would have to drive at least 80 miles to find that many bananas around here!

Do you typically see many with fruits later in summer?

Not as many as without fruits. Many are unattended, some are over attended. Maybe 1 in 12-15 houses gets fruit, but that is a guess based on anecdotal evidence

This was just the tip of the iceberg for the sheer numbers around. I could have taken 30 more pictures of small or single plants or tips of leaves from behind fenced houses. I'll shoot more one day soon.

We have had a perfect banana summer with the rains.

ArchAngeL01
07-06-2009, 03:47 PM
thanx for sharing i love that saba yet i cant find any around here for sale THANX FOR SHARING!