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Can someone please give me some info on ney poovan like how cold hardy etc thanks as its not on the wiki

caliboy1994

Isn't Ney Poovan a synonym for Mysore?

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Yes It would Apear so It looks like it is also Pisang celang That I have Growing.

caliboy1994

Pisang Ceylon is the same as Mysore except its resistant to BSV.

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Gabe15

'Ney Poovan' is different from 'Mysore', it is an AB, Safet Velchi subgroup banana, like 'Chini Champa'. The fruit is very good, but I cannot say anything about it's cold hardiness, I have only grown it in the tropics.

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RAINFOREZT

Mysure, Pisang Klotek, Palayam Kodan, Pisang Ceylon, Chini champa, Ney poovan and safed vellachi are may be different plants. If their fruit taste the same or similar I wants to grow only one of them. I wish i had enough land to grow all of them side by side and analyse them. I have palayam kodan. I recently purchased a mysure pup, but they looks exactly the same as my playam kodan. I heard Chini champa fruit taste very close to mysure.
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And Chini Champa and Ney poovan are in the same group!

So they may be all diffrent plants with similar tasting fruits.

venturabananas

Gabe, is the flavor of Ney Poovan noticeably different from Mysore? If so, how?

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venturabananas

Something named "Chini Champa" may be an AB genome plant in the Safet Velchi subgroup (though I think Safet Velchi is not actually a subgroup, and is instead a cultivar in the Ney Poovan subgroup), but most of the accessions with some spelling variant of this name in MGIS database are in the Mysore subgroup (AAB). The Chini Champa that Nanaman has posted pictures of is a Mysore subgroup banana, not an AB, Safet Velchi or Ney Poovan banana.

Also, according to MGIS, "Poovan" is a Mysore subgroup banana, but "Ney Poovan" is a Ney Poovan subgroup banana. Given that they practically have the same name, you could see how they might be mixed up. The two subgroups are pretty easy to tell apart though, Ney Poovan have practically horizontal bunches with fairly widely spaced hands and Mysore have vertical to slightly angled bunches with tightly packed hands. And Mysore have the classic pinkish-purple underside of newly emerged leaves, whereas Ney Poovan have the normal green.

It turns out that Ney Poovan subgroup bananas are nice and sweet, but with little or no acidity, whereas Mysore subgroup bananas have nice tartness to balance the sweetness.

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RAINFOREZT

I have njalipoovan, its may be the same as Ney poovan. Mysure is a entirely different plant. I agree with mark. I am growing Mysure (Palayam Kodan) Ney poovan(Njali poovan).

I am also growing poovan. Its similar to Manzano. Poovan is the only plant that did not burn any leaves during the s.Florida frost.