Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

This was bought as Ice Cream. But the height is too short for Ice Cream as i read everywhere.
It is my most cold & wind tolerant type. Last winter the leaves stayed green (in all my other types theye were yellow) and never shreded.
Now i think that i see a flag leaf and a flower coming. Height is 5ft. It also produced more than 5 pups. One particulary pup i took it off without roots and i left it horizontally in a cement for 5 months because i thought that was useless. After 5 months i made an experiment and put it in the ground, and now it has roots and the base is getting green! It seems that it never dies..
What is it?

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

No idea, but I wish I had one like that!

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

The leaves look very tight and upright like a Rajapuri. Post some closeups of the flowers when it opens up and I'll post some closeups of Rajapuri to compare.

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

Update of flower bud

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

Can we get an overall of the whole plant, from a little further away?
I'm definately not thinking Rajapuri anymore!


SDC now comes to mind but lets see an overall shot
http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_Super_Dwarf_Cavendish

How long did it take to get that plant to bloom?

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

No way SDC. This is my most tolerant between all my 12 types of bananas in the ground. It went through winter intact. A removed and forgoten pup for 5 months, when i put it in the ground, it rooted! Not one leave shreded - and all remained green and thick. All of my other bananas turned to yellow in winter.
My last SDC died within a month or two.
And the height op pstem is exactly 5 ft - 1.5mm. The last leave touches the ceiling wood which is 2.6m (8.5 ft) high
I planted it 15 months ago.
There is no space to stand for a better photo.



Here you can just see a Saba pstem on the left. Ice Cream is in center


and here is a night shot - with my son who is nearly 5years old.


I also have a Rajapuri around there, which generally looks a little different.

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

Yep that would probably be too tall for SDC, among other reasons..
I don't know, but those new pics might help trigger a response from someone with the same cultivar.
As the bloom opens please update the thread, as you know, the flowers help distinguish one from another.
Cheers

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

An update with 2 photos.
First bract just opened and fruits & flowers are a little difficult to see.
I had to lay on my back to take the shot!
I will update when bract is fully open and can take a better shot with lower iso/noise.

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream?
 

An update with the fruits.
I try to take a close up of fresh male flowers..

Re: Mislabeled Ice Cream? (upd photos)
 

Some more photos to examine

female flowers


male flowers


the fruit bunch


Any opinions of ID?