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I think you would love Pisang Ceylon and Mysore, Pisang ceylon seems to have bigger fruit and more berry flavor while mysore seem to be smaller fruit and more honey flavor. Raja puri grow like a dwarf compared to the other two, the fruit is excellent eating with mild berry flavor.
Raja puri is the best banana in terms of fruit taste and healthy, tough plant in my opinion. In Florida they bear fruit regularly. Raja puri is also about 6 to 8 feet. Not to tall which is a good size. But fat plant. Pretty cold hardy too.
I'm growing all of them now so I can report back in 12-18 months Thank you very much everyone!
Raja puri is a great banana. It does have a similar taste to Brazilian and is closely related to it. I find the raja puri has more of a “tropical” taste to it. Both taste amazing. Musa manzano and musa Pisang raja are totally different varieties. And have very different tastes. Manzano is an AAB genome silk subgroup banana. Very popular in south and Central America. Also known as “apple banana”. Not to be confused with the true HI apple banana Brazilian. It is quite astringent and very tart until it is totally ripe where it is very sweet. Pisang raja also an AAB genome but from Asia. Mostly Indonesia and the Philippines. It is harder to grow for me here in TX. I have fruited them a couple times and they make a similar looking fruit to manzano but the fruit itself is dark yellowish orange almost like an iholena. Very sweet even under-ripe! The true Pisang raja is quite rare. I’ve seen a lot of plants sold as Pisang Raja that were actually mysore, manzano, and others.