Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropicman!, 0 by BamaBelle

BamaBelle wrote:
Don...the plot thickens! My first bloom got too heavy and broke the trunk. I let ti stay on the tree for a couple of days till I saw taht it was going to cause the top of the tree to die (it wasn't completely broken, so I wasn't sure till the leaves started dying). So, I went ahead and cut the bunch and brought them in. You know how I said that the fruit had three sides? Well, some of them ahve three sides and some have four sides. It appears that the fryuit on the end of each hand has three sides while the center fruit of each hand have four sides.The closer the fruit is the the end of the hand, the smaller the fourth side is...so those in the very middle of the hand are symmetrical. So, obviously, they are not Orinoco as we had thought. Darn, I was looking forward to taht strawberry flavored nanner.... Anyway, I went ahead and hung the bunch in the closet to ripen....some of them are very well filled out so hopefully at least the more mature fruit will be edible. Anyway, here is a picture of the fruit. The first real close up I have been able to get because they were so high up and I don't have a telephoto lens. You can see the size and shape of the fruit...so maybe we can get an ID on them (I hope)!