01-03-2010, 12:53 PM
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Re: Musa 'Aiuri', fe'i banana
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Originally Posted by jeffreyp
Where can you buy fei corms? Anyone?
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Not easy..these two quotes say it all:
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Originally Posted by Gabe15
fe'i bananas are a group of cooking bananas belonging to the subgenera Australimusa (as opposed to Eumusa as is the case with other edible bananas) and evolved completely separate from the bananas we are most familiar with. They were once an important food, but have been replaced by other crops and are harder to come by these days, the plants are virtually unknown in the horticulture trade and rare to see even in botanic gardens. They generally have erect bunches and fruits with a bright orange pulp.
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fe'i bananas in Manoa Valley
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Originally Posted by damaclese
Fei are a type of banana that grow in and around Polynesia the are well adapted to that climate able to withstand the severe heat and long dry spells that some times plague many inlands when you cut them they bleed red sap its vary pretty but staining the fruit is Orange in color just about all us want a plant i think they would do well here in NV but there vary hard to come by no on seems to be abal to get them
heres a link to a nice discution on fei
Musa 'Aiuri', fe'i banana
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Originally Posted by Rmplmnz
Last person I know of that grew them in the continental US was Bill Lessard (former owner of Going Bananas Homestead, FL and author of "The Complete Book of Bananas")....
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French Polynesia
Last edited by Rmplmnz : 01-04-2010 at 08:23 AM.
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