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Please help ID, I thought it was a Raja Puri
Hi all, I bought this banana plant as a tissue culture Raja Puri. As it grew bigger it looked like a Raja Puri, to me. When it fruited, the fruit looked like a Raja Puri, to me. It fruited the first time at about 6'. The second time it fruited at about 8'. The last two times it has fruited it has been 11-12'! It is a monster! But to me it still looks like Raja Puri, just a giant one. I have included some pictures so more eduacated people can maybe ID it. The picture of fruit I'm 95% sure is off this plant. I'm going off memory. If anyone has any ideas of what it is, then please let me know.
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Re: Please help ID, I thought it was a Raja Puri
The larger one should flower soon. I will post pictures of that when it happens.
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Re: Please help ID, I thought it was a Raja Puri
World Of Bananas in Hawaii by Kepler says Raja Puri and Brazilian are very, very similiar so based on height I'll go with Brazilian.
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Re: Please help ID, I thought it was a Raja Puri
It might be Brazilian. I have Dwarf Brazilian growing right next to it. It is about 2-3 feet taller than Dwarf Brazilian. One difference is the bottom of the midrib on new leaves has some red on the "Raja Puri". On the Dwarf Brazilian there is no red.
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Upon closer inspection the leaves on the Dwarf Brazilian have red on the bottom of the midrib on new leaves. The more I look at it I do think it might be Brazilian. But here is the problem. This plant was bought as a tissue culture grown plant. As far as I know Agristarts doesn't TC Brazilian.
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Re: Please help ID, I thought it was a Raja Puri
I sent Gabe pictures of a plant purchased as a cardaba but believed to be D. Brazilian or R.P. his response was: " They are extremely closely related and can be hard to tell apart unless growing side by side in the same environment"
for my plant he was leaning towards D. Brazilian but now I have another plant which was purchased as a D. Brazilian that is getting pretty tall for a dwarf.. only time will tell for me. a few other differences he mentioned were: " sometimes the male buds of the RP are slightly more reddish" " and they are shorter" "but since those are variable traits based on conditions, its hard to tell without having them both" "RP tends to have slightly different fruit shape as well, a little plumper" I was also under the impression that DB and RP put out racks at more of a horizontal position instead of completely vertical as yours are (but i can be wrong on this as i'm only basing it on my own rack being horizontal compared to all my other varieties that are vertical producing)
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Re: Please help ID, I thought it was a Raja Puri
To my inexperienced eye, it looks like pisang raja. https://www.flickr.com/photos/156636...57683238209234
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Thanks for the advice. I will compare the photos to my plant tomorrow.
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