It was a pup that I got in an exchange, I got two pups in the trade and gave away one to a friend (that one also died). When it was a pup, it got a hard time starting up. First the pseudostem died back to the ground level, then in the middle of very hot late summer, two full months after it was planted, it started to grow, it reached about 3 ft in the fall, then died back during the first frost and never came back. Perhaps there might be microbial strains in our area that this type of banana became susceptible when it got colder, that is why the corm died during the wet winter. But the plant when it was at its peak, is truly lovely to look at.
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