Re: Ae Ae Emergency
Actually, after taking some closer looks at the original pictures, I retract my former guess and am now thinking it to not be Ae Ae. Reason? Ae Ae is a AAB, which is mostly acuminata and this shows in the leaf bases, on young plants the leaf bases gradually taper into the petiole and on older ones, although they are more rounded still taper to some degree. On the plant shown, you can see very pronounced rounded leaf bases that to not taper into the petiole at all, this is from balbisiana genes and thus mostly likely it is an ABB variety, you will notice this same character on Saba as well (a common ABB variety), and of course on balbisiana.
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