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bigdog · 02-09-2008, 12:09 PM

Professor Markku Hakkinen has written an article on Musa itinerans, scheduled to appear in the next issue of Novon, a quarterly journal dedicated to botanical nomenclature.

I thought your Musa sp. 'Yangtse' looked like Musa itinerans 'Yunnan'. The M. itinerans varieties that I know about are var. xishuangbannaensis, var. guangdongensis (Burmese Blue), 'Yunnan', var. itinerans (which could be the same as 'India Form'). The only two that send out very long rhizomes are var. xishuangbannaensis and var. itinerans. The rest are moderate clumpers, according to Professor Hakkinen. I don't know where M. formosana fits into the complex, since it is a runner as well.

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