venturabananas

I understand what you're saying. For banana descriptors by scientists, height and circumference is not normally measured on anything other than mature plants, so the fact that the leaf sheath is near the bottom on a pup isn't really relevant to what is usually measured. Pups come off the corm, so the top of the corm of the mature plant has to be above or at where the pups attach to it. Measuring the mature plant from the top of the pups is fine in ARH. In Pisang Klotek, for example, if you used the same technique, you would be measuring underground, near the base of the corm because they come off near the bottom of the corm in some cases.

There are no banana scientists in California, more or less. The measuring of banana plant circumference at 1-m high is the international standard for describing banana plant morphology. See the "Descriptors for Banana" document that I posted before.

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