Here are some better quality pictures showing most of the plant

Awesome!! I just barely brought back a Musa Manzano from Los Angeles this weekend, little guy is about two to three feet tall. I love the reddish tint in the stems. Does yours not have that? My plant was listed as " Banana (brazilian) (apple)" So I can only assume it's a manzano, maybe not!

That's exciting! What nursery did you get it at in LA? Lucky man!! going to Los Angeles. It looks a lot like mine when it was at that stage also it seems to have the red midrib under the leaves. Looks like a very healthy plant.

I believe many banana varieties have some sort of reddish midrib in the leaves. My Basjoos and Yunnan do. More pronounced when they are small.

Yes a lot have red. It's an edible banana that's for sure haha. If this is a true manzano only time will tell. There is no way to passively ID a young plant until it blooms. Brazilian apple is a very tall banana.

Redish stem it did have but faded over time. The red mid rid on manzano doesn't really go away. See it's still showing up on the newest leaf...Just something to look for down the road along with a solid green stem

Excellent! Very excited for the sweet crop of this Manzano! I have a very large pot I'll move it into this summer and spoil it, if I'm lucky enough to get a flower I have an entry way with high ceilings I can move it into to ripen if it blooms closer to the fall months. I think I'm gonna also get a good pup going in the garden and let it spread, see if can keep the quorum alive with heavy mulch during the winter. Nice thing about bananas, one plant will give you several to experiment with over time

Oh, and the nursery was international garden and floral design center in El Segundo. Had a lot of really pretty flowers, ton of succulents, cacti, some awesome dragon fruit varieties. Tree ferns, licuala palms and pygmys. The only banana variety they were carying was the brazilian apple, but I'm not complaining haha. They had some really big ones. I grabbed the smallest healthiest looking one for the 10 hour car ride I had back home.

I love getting new free pups off the mother plant! even if it's not for the "bananas" they are still nice big lush plants to have around. That plan will be fine it's only for the winter. 10 hour drive, Wow where were you headed? I was wondering how it was in such great shape if you flew LOL! that shop sounds like the place to be but in SoCal i'm sure every nursery is normally loaded with those plants.

Yea, I started with one Basjoo and now have a few dozen in three groves. Mine have been producing bananas but they are inedible.

Andrew, I think you are in zone 8? AL? you could do more then basjoo there. Something edible!

7 or 7A. I have Saba, Black Thia, Yunnan, & Basjoo in ground. I have had Namwa ( was labeled as Ice Cream when I purchased it ) , Raja and Giant Napal but lost them. I want to purchase a Orinco for fruit . Read on this forum it should do good in my zone for a fruit producer. Saba produces an edible plantain but it has yet to flower after five years. Not sure if the Black Thia produces edible fruit although I found an article on the internet a grower down on the Gulf Coast area growing them for the local market down there.

Oh not as high as I thought. You can do orinoco but will have to protect them in the winter. Saving the p-stem is most important to get fruit.