Banana ID help

Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

I figured I'd ask here first before posting in ID forum. I brought lots of bananas with me, and not all of them survived. These did, but unfortunately their tags did not. I had Basjoo, veluntinia, orinoco and disang ceylon in the missing tag category. There is one that I didn't take a picture of, but I'll go out in a little while and take it's picture too.
Here is the first one, the upperside of the leaves is green, but the underside is a pinky bronze color.
Edited to add: this is unknown banana #1

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Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

Second one: has green leaves with a pink midrib. I will post two pictures, first one is of the top of the leaf and the second one will be the underside.
Edited to add this is Unknown Banana #2

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Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

Here is the underside of the one pictured above: I think it might be Orinoco.
Unknown Banana #2 underside of leaf.

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Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

Here is the next one, with a picture to follow of a pup.
Edited to add: This is unknown Banana #3

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Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

Here is the pup and also the stem so you can see it's pink.

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Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

Another plant and pup to follow.
Edited to add: Unknown Banana #4, may be the same variety as Unknown Banana #2, but not the same plant.

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Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

Here is the pup on the plant pictured right above this. There also may have been more varieties than I mentioned in the first post, I just can't remember what they were, and I can't read the tags they are all faded.

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Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

Last one. Don't laugh at my newspaper mulch, I'm not finished with this bed, but needed to kill the bermuda grass that is there. DH is no longer allowed near my beds with weed-killer.
This one has red spots on the leaves, it isn't Zebrina.

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Interlachen, FL

Musa Bordelon.

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San Antonio, TX(Zone 8b)

The last one might be Dwarf Cavendish (Musa acuminata). It just has a few small splotches when young. My favorite nursery has lots of them that look just like this. It has edible fruit and does well in Texas.

http://plantsdatabase.com/go/532/index.html





Harrisville, MI(Zone 5b)

Cala,That last one could be Blood good,need to see more from your pics AA?,do you have pics of pups?

Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

I will take more pics today. I have the Dwarf Cavendish in a separate spot and don't think I had a Bordelon banana. I would have remembered that name, I have a friend from LA named Bordelon.
I will take pictures of the pups if they have any.

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