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Largest Dwarf Pisang Awak "Namwa" I've ever seen.

Height - 3.7 m
Dia. at 1 meter - 34.5 cm
14 Hands

1/18/25

2/1/25

That's a beautiful plant, my Namwa is sleeping in my spare room in my home still very slowly growing lovely paper thin leaves just perfect for snapping and shredding when it's warmer outside!! Lol

3.7M dwarf?!?!! That's bigger than my Basjoo gets by at least 2 feet, probably more....assuming we are talking p-stem height. That's a big dwarf!

And the diameter?? 1M - am I reading that correctly? I'd love to see a pick of that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirdoofus (Post 356169)

Agronomic - Information (phenotypic, morphological, and agronomic) collected for particular accession
over several years in separate characterization and evaluation experiments (see previous section for
detailed description of experiments).
• Days from plant to harvest - The number of days from the date of planting until bunch was
harvested (physiologically mature, but not ripe)
• Days from flower to harvest - The number of days from the date of inflorescence emergence until
bunch was harvested (physiologically mature, but not ripe)

• Plant diameter - Pseudostem diameter one meter above the ground and collected at bunch
emergence (measured in centimeters)
• Plant height - Pseudostem height from the ground to highest intersection of leaf petioles and collected
at bunch emergence (measured in meters)

• Leaves at flowering - The number of functional leaves on plant at inflorescence emergence
(functional leaf = >50% area photosynthetically active)
• Leaves at harvest - The number of functional leaves on plant at bunch harvest (functional leaf
= >50% area photosynthetically active)
• Net bunch weight - Weight of the fruit on a bunch determined by total bunch weight and then
subtracting rachis weight after hands have been removed
• Number of hands - The number of hands on a harvested bunch
• Number of fruits - Total number of fruits on a harvested bunch
• Pseudostem color - Predominant color of pseudostem (outer surface)
• Suckers at harvest - The number of adventitious suckers around mother or first ratoon
pseudostems at harvest
• Bunch phenotype - For plantains only, and can be Horn, False-horn or French type
• Economic importance - How fruit or plant is used including dessert, cooking, beer, leaves, etc

Diameter, got it - thanks for the clarification :)

It was disappointing finding another one of these giants today in the same general area. I was really hoping the first one was some type of mutation but now it's most likely caused by environmental conditions. This is a fairly small area probably about 3m x 10m and these plants were not intentionally planted but grew from discarded banana material.

This one was a little bit bigger.

Height - 3.75 m
Dia. at 1 meter - 35.3 cm

2/11/25

There's at least 13 full hands but hopefully more will be revealed

Knowing that there's three parallel downward spirals means that only one column needs to be counted. If starting with the top hand the count would go as follows 1-4-7-10-13-16.

2/22/25

14 Full hands plus a partial :08: