bigdog

OK, I just got these back from the greenhouse yesterday, where they have been since I germinated them. I couldn't resist posting a few pictures and speculating on this species. Seed was from sunshine-seeds.com, and so far I've had 15% germination (1 died)(3/20). It still hasn't been officially given a scientific name, I don't believe (Gabe, please correct me if I'm wrong...and please chime in on what you told me you thought it might be). This could turn out to be a very cold-hardy species also, which in my mind would make it THE most desireable, cold-hardy banana species. Take a look.

Plant on the left sprouted on 3-22-07, plant on right on 04-09-07:



Leaf closeup of the bigger one:



And of the smaller plant:



Another side-by-side picture:



How's that for ornamental?? The color on the midrib bleeds into the leaf more with each leaf that unfurls. I certainly hope that it retains this characteristic as an adult, but something tells me it won't. Seems like most of these bananas lose their coloring and become very green as they get older. I can hope though!