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Thanks much!

The guy I got the Ele Ele from also had an Ae Ae. I was told that only 25% of the pups are variegated - his had 5 pups and all were nicely variegated. I think he was surprised that I didn't ask for one of those. He also had some other Hawaiian bananas that he said were un-named, a few had a light maroon tint under the leaves. One particularly interesting banana has leaves that were marked with the maroon only on the outer third of the leaf with the midrib and the area surrounding it (the center third) a regular green color. It had edible fruit, too, but he said they were somewhat small.

He was growing some native taro (Kalo), too, and some of that was also variegated. I never knew any of the Hawaiian taro was variegated.

Interesting visit, and I learned some things, and got some great plants. Oh, I almost forgot, he mentioned that there was also a Hawaiian banana called Mahoi that also has double banana bunches (no, he didn't have any). He said it is only a Hawaiian type, and has no relation to the Chinese/Williams/Cavendish Double Mahoi that people are familiar with. Gabe, do you know anything about that? Also, which Hawaiian type has the inner leaf green, and the outer part maroon like I described above?