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Gabe15 · 08-29-2007, 10:03 PM

It's not Praying Hands, the black coloration is very normal on bananas, but unfortunatly not on Praying Hands which has an all green pseudostem. The leaf bases (at the junction with the petiole) suggest it is something either in the AAA or AAB groups (Praying Hands is in the ABB, so your plant is likely something completely different), which is a lot of different plants. So for a final ID, you will need to wait for it to flower and post more pictures here when it does so.

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