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Old 05-15-2007, 12:12 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: List of cold hardy bananas

Here are my candidates, but there is a fair amount of guessing here, since I have only read about many of these plants' cold hardiness:

Very cold hardy:
- Basjoo
- Sikkimensis + Red tiger
- Helen
- Certain strains of Balbisiana
- Dwarf & Tall orinoco (if wrapped & protected from rain)
- Formosana(?)
- Yangtse(?)

Fairly Hardy:
- Velutina
- Cheesmani
- Rajapuri
- Brazilian (Dwarf & Tall)
- "California Gold"
- Saba
- Chini Champa

Stems may survive a brief frost
- Apple
- Goldfinger
- Misi Luki (?)

Wimps
- The Iholenes
- Cavendish type bananas

Anyone want to help me with more candidates in the right place here?

Erlend
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