Re: musa aurantiaca ???
Hi Clinton
By the way Excellent drawings and descriptions!!
I have never had M.aurantiaca so best left to Frank and Markku for a positive I.D. here is a description of aurantiaca that I found on the net and it does sound very similar to your plant… hope this helps.
Musa aurantiaca
Habitat Grows wild in the wet temperate forest of upper Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and in southern Tibet.
Pseudostem Slender, stoloniferous, 0.8-1 m height, yellow green in colour with black blotches. Clumping habits, many suckers emerge very close to the mother plant.
Leaves Erect to intermediate, 90-95 cm long, light green, glabrous on upper and dull on lower surface, laminar bases are pointed. Petiole 20-25 cm long, wide open petiole canal, winged margins.
Bunch 4-6 hands, 2-4 fingers per hand, uniseriate in arrangements.
Peduncle erect, very short with only 10-15 cm length, glabrous in nature. Rachis short, barren, scars are less predominant.
Male bud Lanceolate, orange in colour, convolute.
Male bract Orange on both inner and outer faces, open two at a time, takes two to three days for shedding, neither reflex nor revolute, lacks wax coating.
Male flowers Orange in colour, 6-8 flowers per hand, arranged in uniseriate manner. Compound tepal about 4 cm long, orange in colour, free tepal is more or less as long as compound tepal, opaque white in colour and rectangular in shape.
Fruit Does not reflex, sub sessile, not edible, skin watery green in colour and glabrous in nature.
Seeds Warty, dull black in colour, very small, 1.5 mm in diameter.
Tony
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