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Would you tell me what it is that makes a banana king a banana king. With all the looks of Calis' it gets confussing. Thanks.
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I like to refer to Banana cal kings has having a lot of yellow (no banding), hence what a banana looks like, but that is not what people call them. A lot of people call cal kings "bananas" that are not IMO.

Kerby...
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I think that the term bannana should be reserved for snakes that are really almost all YELLOW. You know like the fruit!!! maybe a few black flecks. Now a days I see everyone with a marginally high white cal king trying to call it a bannana. Even really high whites shouldn't be called a bannana IMHO. Whats the point of creating a common name if its just misleading????

Same deal with the term chocolate. It seems that hobbiests are trying to use the term chocolate to cover everything that used to be refered to as coastal phase. Again IMHO I think chocolate should be reserved for nearly paternless brown snakes like JETZENs (snickers is it??)

The patern and color mutations of cal kings is complicated enough without a retarded/inconsistent system of common nomenclature.

What is the difference between "coastal phase" and banded?

I was under the impression that "coastal phase" was more brown, where banded was dark brownish/black or black - but not desert.

But I've seen coastal phase used with the darker banded as well.
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