Guatemalan highland red banana?
I recently (today) acquired another cold hardy banana from a good friend to the north of our city. He said it came from the highlands of Guatemala and is proven in his yard to be cold hardy at the pseudostem each winter, and is able to fruit here in our area. It has green pseudostem but the fruits are Red.
Was wondering what the proper name of this banana could be. Incidentally, I also have a Jamaican Red Banana which has survived the arctic blast, and that one has red pseudostem and pink leaf stalks. Although the stem survived, the outer sheaths are mostly dead after the arctic blast but grew back from the height where it stopped last winter.
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