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Originally Posted by nealnick5
You don't specify what type variegated.. zebrina (green/red variegated) is pretty easy from my experience. Probably quadrupled in size from 1.something feet to around 5 feet by the end of summer this year.. full sun.. no maintenance (planted in the ground in VA for the summer.. I dug it up in Nov. to winterize it indoors). The dude I bought it from said out of 4 of his in the ground, 2 of them survived a VA winter.
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If I remember correctly, M. zebrina's variegations fade to almost nothing when the plants get large. I have grown zebrina while small, but I think that I have seen 12' zebrina in conservatories.
I have also grown the similarly variegated Musa Sumatrana X Gran Nain, which has wider leaves:
Musa Sumatrana X Gran Nain (cross) - Bananas Wiki