Hi members,
As I am still looking for musa ornata "Milky Way"
I were told the musa ornata "Milky Way" were disappearing from nurseries in world and seems confined to Thailand.
Musa ornata "Milky Way" were heading toward extinction in USA and Austria & Europe.
Resently Plant-Group told me they no longer have "Milky Way".
The owner of Achim's banana shop were a very bad man and were rude to a member of Bananas.org & abused him. He had money budgeting problems.
He also stealing money from his friends & owners of nurseries & some members of Bananas.org by tricked them into send money to him by lying to them.
Gina Anne (Lilith) is only woman in USA I know, to had growing musa ornata "Milky Way" at her place, but she is not helpful and is not willing to sell or give away to members of Bananas.org. Few years ago I got angry with her when she made an exuse by said "sorry, I do not do international mailing."
A woman named Linda (Lindra-GEL) lives in Austria and was a helpful woman and would like to send me some musa ornata "Milky Way", but her plants had not produced suckers yet. I been very helpful toward her & adviced her about how to grow musa ornata "Milky Way". I have to wait for 1-2 next years before I get suckers from her. She know about Achim's banana shop.
I worried I not able to import tissue cultures of musa ornata "Milky Way" to New Zealand and if I cannot get hold of musa ornata "Milky Way", the plants will be extinct in 10 years time from now.
The banana plant breeder Cheesman had died 50 years ago.
He hybridized musa velutina and musa flaviflora and then backcrossed them to produce hybrid "Milky Way"
I do not know about musa flaviflora were a wild banana plant and may be an other name for either musa ornata or musa velutina.
I were planning to hybridize pink-flowered musa ornata and musa velutina & backcross the hybrid plants to try to breed "Milky Way" at my place.
That will take years.
Unless we must save musa ornata "Milky Way" these plants will face extinction.
This means I must have them by Sept this year.
To export the plants means they need to be tissue cultured and tissue cultures will be send to New Zealand to me.
PLEASE do NOT let the musa ornata "Milky Way" heading toward extinction.
Cheers
Clinton.