Re: Musa Sikkimensis Gigantea
Thanks for your replies guys.. have any of you found any info on were the Gigantea seed was collected or a description of the plant in the wild, I’ve had a look on the net but not had any luck!
It looks like Botanist’s may not have done any work on the species Musa sikkimensis and its possible variants! I suspect there are at least a few of them, like the have found with Itinerans, Yunnanensis and Basjoo.
After growing various Sikkimensis… Darjeeling Giant, Red Tiger, Hookerii, and seed offered by Phil Markey of Sikkimensis collected in Myanmar, it’s obvious to me the variants exist and its possible Gigantea is another of them.. NOT very scientific but we don’t have much info to go on.
Ante, you said Gigantea survived planted out, can you tell us what your winter low was!
Tony
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