Banana ID please :)
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 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 :) |
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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!.... |
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It's for sure not a blue java ice cream. I agree looks more like a namwa to me also. Great banana congrats!
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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?
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The plant looks healthy - do you put fertilizer around it?
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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 :) |
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Do you just have the one (unknown) variety growing?
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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. |
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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!
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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. |
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