Re: pollination of wild species
Musa velutina has bisexual basal flowers, so they self pollinate before any other pollen can pollinate it, there are only a few species that do this, the other I can think of at the moment are M. ingens, M. boman, M. mannii*, M. rubinea*, a form of M. acuminata ssp. banksii, M. monticola and M. schizocarpa. I think there are few more but I cannot remember them right now.
*note: fore some unknown reason, these two species often will not self pollinate out of habitat even though they produce bisexual basal flowers with functional pollen.
All wild species that do not have bisexual basal flowers, have female basal flowers and require pollination from male flowers. I have never heard that they need be not from the same plant, because you can pollinate female flowers with its very own male flowers on the same bunch even. When the very last female flowers open, in some species (Eumusa and Rhodochlamys usually work, there is too big of a gap in Callimusa species though) you can use the pollen from the first male flowers. Although inbreeding may not contribute to genetic diversity, it is crucial for some species in remote areas where there may be a single plant and it has no choice but to inbreed (M. jackeyi in many in Papua New Guinea).
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