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Originally Posted by damaclese
wow Gabe the sound so interesting i wander if they would cross with any of the Emusa variates?
and would the resulting fruit have to be cooked or would its sugar content be higher than the Australiamusa all interesting and vary intriguing what is the ficus of your field research on the Fe'i banana Gabe?
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In theory they should not cross with Eumusa due to differing chromosome counts which usually prevents crossing (n=10 vs. n=11), but this didn't stop nature and there are hybrids. However, as mentioned before, very little is known about these bananas and close to no work has been done on them compared to Eumusa varieties. The only thing I have done with them is try to collect as much info as I can (I actually have a whole book on them, published in 1947 which was really the most work done on them it seems, but you can see current info is lacking), and I've tried to collect them in Hawai'i, I have 2 different ones from a botanic garden and one that I found in the forest near my school, I also have one in Colorado of a different known variety (but cannot distribute it). I only know the identity of one of the Hawaii ones and am working on determining what the others are.
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