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Old 08-08-2007, 08:10 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Musa ornata 'Orange Flower'

Anyone else growing this one yet? I've managed to germinate two seeds from rarepalmseeds.com so far. They are extremely small plants! The first one that popped up actually had two sprouts from the same seed. They are both working on their 5th or 6th leaf, but aren't even a half-inch tall yet. I'm worried I may have overpotted them, but I don't want to mess with them because they are still growing fine, albeit a little slow.

http://www.rarepalmseeds.com/shop/MusOrn.shtml

The seeds are also very small, possibly the smallest Musa seeds I've seen so far. I though they could be Musa aurantiaca, but after reading Kyle's description of his M. aurantiaca from Trebrown, I am thinking maybe not. There can't be too many orange-flowered species (hybrids?) out there though, so I can't help but think it may be, at the very least, one of the parents.
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