customgreen

In my case I can only go by what I purchased or known to be true. I have about a dozen dwarf Cavendish and they are very consistant with size, growth habits, and fruit produced. They match up nearly perfectly from other people who have them as well. As for others I have to rely on the tag from the nursery. I have a few that I got from friends and they either bought them and put them in or in one case a friend purchased a house from a couple that had banana plants on the property. That particular case the couple kept detailed records of all their garden plantings. I did buy a "Costa Rican Sweet" from a gentleman who is in our general area. The plants were large and inexpensive. A little investigating and I found out that there is no such thing as a Costa Rican Sweet. Heck if it gives me tastey bananas I'm good.