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Originally Posted by Caloosamusa
 Now that I've considered it, are those pictures taken at a local farmers market? Does the Hawaian Fe'i, or any of the Fe'i cultivars show any cold tolerance?  |
As stated in the first post, these were at the Hilo farmers market. Fe'i bananas are relatively so rare and so poorly known, that the kind of horticultural information most growers will be wanting to know is simply not available. Its easier to say where they grow well in the Pacific, but as for making any guesses as to how they would do on the mainland US or Europe or anywhere were they are not already growing, you would have to try to find out. My inclination is to think that they are likely very tropical and not at all cold tolerant. They are not in any kind of wide circulation and they are mostly grown by local farmers scattered throughout the Pacific. The plants are extremely hard to come by at nurseries and botanic gardens, but they are out there.