To answer the original question, Raja Puri was said to be one of those hardier varieties, so if it's kept in dry, mulched and protected place, it should survive the winters. But as Cesar said, different climates have different influence on survival of bananas. When you will have more naners and the plants will have larger corms, the only way to know for sure is to try it yourself.
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Originally Posted by CESAR
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USDA is just an indication, we have to deal with our microclimate.
If your in a place where the corms have time to get big before a severe frost then you can keep it.
Frequences of low temperature must be an important indicator too.
Latitude means nothing too.
My place is about New york's latitude and we have a climate more similar to L A.
The situation is important too, 40 km from my place there is a spot where they generally never see a temperature below +7C,45F i think. They ve never seen frost, its possible to grow there lot of bananas species.
Unfortunetly the price of the plots push people to make buildings before caring about bananas...
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Cesar, I don't believe you
, I'm like New York, you must be more like Washington. French Riviera is one of those lucky warm places in Europe. It is a microclimate very similar to that of Makarska Riviera, although I think Makarska Riviera is a little bit warmer in winter.
These two places are to my knowing only countries, that are subtropically hot in Europe, yet don't suffer from fires in summer (unlike Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal...)
This year also a new branch of EU inspectors was instituted, its role is to monitor the desertation processes in Europe (Portugal and Spain).
It is estimated, that in 20 years there will be deserts in Europe as well (there are none today) and that the first will be in Portugal, then Spain and Italy. Observations were made this year in Portugal and the results should be known next spring.