Apple (Manzano)??
 

I got this one from TC, just want to make sure this is really Manzano. Can anyone confirm.

Re: Apple (Manzano)??
 

Take some more photos from further back, the photos are too close up. We need to see the whole bunch and plant in addition to the close ups.

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Just could not get too good of light, I need a later after noon pic. Do you still need some more?

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What was the verdict on this?

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The jury is still out

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Well, Worm Farmer, did you harvest and eat these? Were they Manzano? They look like it to me from the pictures you posted.

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BTW, those are really good pictures. I think it is the first full fruiting height banana picture that showed from the ground up that I have seen.

I am guessing the fruiting height was over 12 feet a little bit.

Re: Apple (Manzano)??
 

Frost killed them so its hard to say. This year is much more promising, one flower ed last month, and the other mat just flowered. So I might have some time to get full rip fruit from it.

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Beautiful plants, they have the same coloration as my dwarf brazilian/ apple banana... I've read from a few sources that apple, and brazilian are one in the same.

Re: Apple (Manzano)??
 

Hi Mike,
Here's photo of my Manzano that flowered two years ago. This was a transplant that flowered with about four leaves on it. Fruit was really good, tasted like a banana with the hint of apple and pineapple.

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Re: Apple (Manzano)??
 

They are not. True Apple/Manzano is a quite different plant than Brazilian, which is called Apple in Hawaii, hence the confusion. Both are great, but the fruit are easy to tell apart. For example, Brazilian has a thick peel (like that of a supermarket Cavendish), and Manzano has a very thin peel. The flavors are different, too.

Re: Apple (Manzano)??
 

It seems there is much confusion among cultivars.. there are two groups of people group 1 considers all banana plants bananas (or plants in general) and don't care about variety at all and group 2 is very specific about variety.. when I bought my dwarf brazilian at a nursery.. they called it dwarf brazilian.. then they also called it apple it tastes a a lot like the hawaiian "apple" banana i've tasted from stores (which thanks to your explaination I now understand is really brazilian). Very sweet with an acid undertone.. like an apple.. YUM

it is confusing though!

Re: Apple (Manzano)??
 

Hawaiian Apple can be Brazillian or Dwarf Brazillian.

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this is dwarf brazilian fruiting.. it's different from manzano (from what I can see and assuming that the picture above is manzano) as it has coloration in the flowers at the ends of the bananas

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Same plant December 31st 2011

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The second picture looks like my mystery

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I'm thinking it is a manzano based on the other ones's I've seen (very common here), but I'll defer to Gabe's judgement. Over here I believe they just call them 'apple' bananas - tall p-stem, but smallish bunch. I have something called a dwarf apple, but until it fruits I can't say for sure what mine is.

Re: Apple (Manzano)??
 

Probably dwarf Brazilian