Re: I stumbled upon a Musa gracilis STRONGHOLD!
Nice find!
It is hard to tell from the photo, but are the female flowers in one or two rows per hand? Both M. gracilis and M. violascens are very similar and have many different forms each, but an easy way to tell them apart is that M. gracilis has fruit in one row per hand (uniseriate) and M. violascens has fruit in two rows per hand (biseriate). There are also natural hybrids between the two.
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