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Originally Posted by brod
Done a bit of study out of the book 'The world of bananas in Hawaii: Then and Now'.
They are saying Valery originated out of Vietnam and has a P-stem height of 3.1m - 3.7m and a naked rachis. Grande Naine is 1.8m - 2.8m with fully clothed rachis at high elevation and less covered at low elevation (Hawaiian conditions).
My conditions are warm sub tropical lowland, which I guess would be like winter highland (Hawaiian)for my winter and summer lowland (Hawaiian)for my summer.
Since my fruiting has been in winter would explain the fully clothed rachis.
Other differences are Valery has leaf stalks not tightly bunched as Grande Naine and Dwarf Cavendish. Mine seems to have the leaves tightly bunched together.
They also said Williams accounts for 95% of Australian commercial production. I'll have to find out where my cousin (whom I got it from) got his plant from.
So my conclusion so far is a Grande Naine, would be glad to hear of any other thoughts to the contrary.
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More info & sources the better, the article I read was from the Australia Gov. and was about Williams but included Valery and a timeline. I'll post it when I find it again.
In Puerto Rico it averages 2.3 m with a messy rachis.
I just looked at some descriptions in that book and they don't appear to be accurate,
but any banana book will have some discrepancies.