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JoeReal · 03-18-2008, 04:41 PM

So far they are correlated from the few cultivars that I have evaluated. Both the saba, dwarf brazilian and regular brazilian are cold hardy enough. Musa ingens, M. itinerans, Musella lasiocarpa have nice dense p-stems also. But there are other things that affect cold hardiness, a thicker diameter helps but that is only one factor.

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