Re: Musa Ae Ae bunch
I still have no plants from Musa basjoo variegata, but I have some pics from young plants of my friend in Walbeck. The time will tell. When the variegated basjoos do pup, then they will perhaps produce more pups than Ae Ae Variegated, because basjoos are puping freely. E. g. my basjoo from Palme Per Paket (Spanner/Munich) was totally killed back and lost its pseudotrunks, the past winter was unsually long in Germany. It survived and puped with about 14 pups!!! Musa basjoo forms large groves, and Ae Ae doesn't that, I think.
The tissue culture is a problem for Ae Ae variegated and Musa basjoo variegated, there are so different plants, only green, only white chlorophyll-less and variegated, it's so unsure. So that they are propagated only by pups. However Musa Ae Ae Variegata forms only few suckers so that the plants are scare and so expensive. Perhaps Musa basjoo Variegata will be some more availablier than Musa Ae Ae Variegata in the future because freely suckering of Musa basjoo. The time will tell!
The first Musa basjoo variegata I have ever heard is in the Netherlands. That was some years ago.
Best wishes
Joachim
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