Re: Musa itinerans var. guangdongensis, aka 'Burmese Blue'
Nice looking clump, that's cool that a park is into cold hardy bananas.
I think Burmese blue is under rated for cold hardiness. When I froze my three initerans forms really badly, I thought my smaller 5 gallon(seed grown) burmese blue was going to come back in the spring, because the corm was still nice looking. The two larger 15 gallon initerans var gigantea(Musa sp big flower) that were next to it didn't even have a corm to speak of, just mush. But in the end the only initerans that came back was the 10 gallon tissue culture one from agristarts(m.yunnansis), but burmese bluse might have come back if it was bigger.
Frank do you think you are going to test your Musa initerans (form India) outside this winter?
I wish they had come up with some easier names to spell and pronounce instead of this bananadongensis crap.
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