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My Bananas

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Variety Trunk Height
 Leaf Height
 Features
 Fruit Yield
Java Blue 12 - 15 ft 22 - 30ft Custard like flavor 4 - 5 hands
Dwarf Cavendish 5 - 7ft 7 - 10ft Grocery Store type 10 - 12 hands
Popoulu 10 - 12 ft 12 - 18 ft Fruit is round! 6 - 9 hands
Pitogo 10 - 12 ft 12 - 18 ft Dessert Plantain 6 - 9 hands
Ae'Ae 10 - 12 ft 12 - 18 ft variegated green & white So rare we don't know
Red & Yellow Iholene 10 - 12 ft 12 - 16 ft Cooking Banana / Color 6 - 9 hands
Ele' Ele (Black Hawaiian) 20 - 25 ft 25 - 30 ft Color, Flesh orange 10 - 12 hands
Goldfinger 8 - 12 ft 10 - 15 ft disease resistant, cold-tolerant 8 - 12 hands
Chinese Aromatic 10 - 12 ft 15 - 18 ft gold-colored fruit, fragarance 8 - 12 hands
Super Dwarf Cavendish 2 - 3ft 3.5 - 5ft Grocery Store type 3 - 5 hands
Our dear friends from Wiesbaden Germany visited us March / April 2002

Left to Right: Dwarf Cavendish, Raja Puri / Java Blue, Chinese Golden

Java Blue (AKA Ice Cream)

Dwarf Cavendish and Fruit's ready!
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Polynesian Banana 'Pitogo' with a fully formed cluster VERY RARE HAWAIIAN Royalty banana "Ae'Ae". Grows in light to medium Shade!
Sunlight burns the pigment-free (white) portions. Pronounced " ah-ee ah-ee" with a complete break between words.
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Here's a closeup of the 'Java Blue' or Ice Cream with a newly formed flower which
will turn into a cluster of Fruit-- also you can see the 'Old Hamaii' Bamboo at 20+ feet tall to the left

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Ele'Ele (Black Hawaiian)
(pronounced EELe EELe) The stalks are actually a dark purple color, the flesh of the fruit when ripe is orange and is best cooked.

The color like the variegated Ae'Ae, depends upon the soil acidity and mineral content.

Also a variety that was reserved to Hawaiian Royalty!

Chinese Golden Aromatic
Here you can see the flower just opening with one hand of fruit visible

And the 2nd image shows two weeks later
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Goldfinger from Honduras Agricultural Research is expected to partially replace the Grand Nain (Chiquita Banana) variety Yellow on left and Red (R) Iholena from Polynesia pronounced 'ee hoe lay nuh'
SUPER DWARF Cavendish Not a lot of fruit,but then its only 2 1/2 feet tall!

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