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bigdog · 10-26-2008, 07:23 PM

Tog, I wish I had some definitive answers to your questions, but I don't. I can only speculate! I would think that they would hold their color at lower elevations though, and that it probably is a genotype that is causing the black coloration, and not an environmental condition. Who knows though!

I didn't figure that the supsp. truncata would be cold-hardy...I was referring to the subsp. siamea in N. Thailand. You never know until you try it though. Some bananas from very warm places have more cold tolerance than one would think.

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