Siam Ruby or Red Abyssynian
Hello, just registered to the forum, and I am really interested in the red banana plants. I'm in USDA zone 10b but I'm pretty sure the temperature dips into the 30's, so I need to know which of these are hardier. I would rather have leafs in the winter.
Also, I am confused about both specimens, the red abyssinian is listed in some sites as the Ensete ventricosum, and others as Ensete maurelii. So which is it, and is it a hybrid?
As for the siam ruby, I understand its a subspecies of the Musa acuminata? Did it evolve in the wild as a red banana or was it "domesticated into red"?
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