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Old 10-03-2007, 04:53 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Default Re: Is this still a Zebrina? Any and all thoughts

There are endless amounts of these hybrid ornamental bananas, most without names, and even when they have names its usually just whatever the nursery that is selling it wants to call it. There are only a few such hybrids that have any sort of consistant name such as 'Bordelon', 'Royal Purple' and 'African Red', you can usually be sure that when you buy a plant under those names its going to be the same (or very similar) to other ones under that name. But for the most part, the names are generally useless in my opinion, rarely is the exact parentage of the hybrid known (so you can't name it with latin binomials, plus many are beyond F1), and the variety names are just things made up by nursery people anyways.

The most percise ID you can give to something like this (without getting a DNA analysis) is that it is some sort of a hybrid of an acuminata subsp. and a Rhodochlamys plant. I'm sure if you look hard enough you could find a name someone once gave it, but for that matter you could also just name it yourself if you really wanted to.
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