Re: Dwarf Orinoco
Bananas, inherent to their nature, aren't really discovered in the way other plants would be. Any edible banana plant has almost always already been in the possession of someone, and if they spot a mutation, such as dwarfism, they will propagate it. So anything other than modern hybrids or otherwise deliberately created plants are extremely hard/impossible to track down when they came about.
'Dwarf Orinoco' is just a smaller version of a taller Bluggoe subgroup banana. Dwarfism is one of the most common mutations, it was not crossed with anything, and at least in my experience the fruit is the same as the common tall one.
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Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.
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