Mega Ice Cream?
 

This plant was mislabeled as a Brazilian. Obviously it isn't that. It has nice blue color like an Ice Cream, but the fruit is so much bigger than any Ice Cream banana I have ever seen. The "scarring" on the skin reminds me of Praying Hands and Saba. Has anyone seen an Ice Cream this large? or is this a new "Blue Saba"? They are not quite ripe yet. Maybe a couple more days.

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Could it be Cardaba?

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I dont know what it is but that bananas are looking beautiful! I want to eat them:D
unfortunalety here they only sell the normal yellow chiquita bananas.

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juging from the littil bit of folig i can see looks like an Ice cream to me note the lightish colerd stems with the slite red/brown eges i could be rong but looks like all the ones i have as for the fruit im not sure as mine havint fruited as of yet
could be a sport

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do you have any small pups of the plant, they are easy to tell if its IC, lots of pink on them....

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I just got my ice cream this spring.
Bought it off ebay looks great.
Can't wait to see it bloom.:0496:

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I'm just growing Ice Cream for the first time myself, so I cannot say for sure; however those are beautiful fruit. You've done a great job with them! Congrats!

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I am in the same situation as bananaman - waiting for my first ice cream to fruit, so can't help you I'm afraid. But I have to say that those fruit look great whatever they turn out to be!

Cassie

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beautiful fruit...if it turns out to be a blue saba...ill have to have one, or two, or three......

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Awsome looking fruits. :2731:

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Sure is nice looking. Let us know if you will be selling them. I would like to get a hold of one for TC'ing. Thanks for the pics.

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There is one just like this on my campus. For every variety we have in the US, there are probably 10 more versions of it out there we have never seen, this looks like one of them.

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got to have one, got to get one...it is just beautiful!

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I've seen this plant in person and it is both beautiful and robust. I'm still guessing it is Cardaba, a member of the Saba subgroup.

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Wow! That is such beautiful fruit!

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Richard,

It is nothing like the plant I have that was labeled "Cardaba". So maybe my Cardaba is not a Cardaba?! Mine is a short, fat, sweet banana.

These have ripened, and the more I look at them, they look and behave like Saba and Praying Handds, which I have always felt were very closely related. Everything about this banana says that it is related to those two: the size, the way the peel "scars" at the end, the angularity of the shape, generally 5 sided, and the flavor is so very similar as well.

I think it will need to be classified as Giant Blue Saba.

A fellow fruit grower took some home to his Philppino wife tonight, and I'll get her impressions and see if she recognizes it from the archipelago.

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Both Saba and Ice Cream share the ABB genome, so they do have many similar characteristics. Another possibility is maybe Silver Bluggoe (another ABB, with waxy skins), but I still think this to be an Ice Cream variety.

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It may be an Ice cream, but it looks just like my Belle. I wish I had a good picture of the fruit to post. I was talking to Greenie and we both said as soon as we saw the picture, it looked like the Belle! The fruit on mine got scarred up from a cold snap, which is why I didn't take any pictures of it.

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It's very nice looking whatever it is!

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Definitely not like my "Belle" - this is bigger, more angular, different color, BUT it does have the soft, almost velvet-like peel that Misi Luki and Belle have.