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Originally Posted by venturabananas
It's not Rajapuri, which has red edged petiole canals which are more open. Mostly likely Dwarf Orinoco.
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Thanks for weighing in. I agree that DO is one of the leading candidates.
The very small number of fingers reminded me of DO, but these fruit all have squarish cross-sections with 4 or 5 sides, and I thought DO fruit were supposed to be triangular.
I also have what Wellspring sold to me as a DO growing a few feet away (see
Musa 'Jazz Hands'). It has always looked in line with the pics of DO's I see here, and strikes me as a very different cultivar from all of my other bananas (because it's a banana/plantain hybrid?) in terms of looks and growing style. That said, some of the pics on the DO wiki page look similar to my unknown plant and different from my purported DO from Wellspring, so maybe my DO from Wellspring is a weirdo and shouldn't be used for comparison.
The banana in this thread is growing really slowly right now, but I'll post more pics as it continues to develop. If it's a DO, the bracts over the male flowers should fall off, leaving a clean rachis.