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Gabe15
09-21-2006, 02:15 PM
Musa laterita
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=1331&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1331&ppuser=5)
Musa 'Rose'
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=1332&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1332&ppuser=5)
Musa 'Little Prince' and Musa 'Super Dwarf Cavendish'
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=1333&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1333&ppuser=5)

Gard
09-21-2006, 02:22 PM
Nice plants! Thanks for sharing! :2223:

Beatiful flower! Will it get edible fruit? Is the 'Rose' bananas edible?

Gard

Zac in NC
09-21-2006, 02:36 PM
Thanks for the pic of the laterita and the baby I sent you. Rose looks good too, her fruit are growing nicely.
:gif_esqui

:twonanners:

Zac

Gabe15
09-22-2006, 01:07 PM
Gard,
the Musa laterita is a wild ornamental speices, so it will not produce edible fruit, however it will produce a seeded fruit when pollinated. Musa 'Rose' is an edible type so it will produce seedless edible fruit.

Tropicallvr
09-25-2006, 05:25 PM
Nice photos, and plants!
I was wondering since I just got a M.laterita this year, isn't the flower usally bronze colored? Or does it change as it progresses?

Gabe15
09-25-2006, 10:56 PM
This is pretty normal color, not so much bronze at all I guess. The name comes from the tropical soil laterite, which is considered to be a "brick red".

jrozier
03-18-2007, 08:27 AM
Gabe, how were the 'Rose' bananas? Did they fully ripen?

Gabe15
03-18-2007, 11:36 AM
The Rose bananas very good! They never ripened on the plant before the plant began to dessicate but I cut the bunch green and they ripened fine in the kitchen.

bigdog
03-18-2007, 07:26 PM
More nice pics! I like that M. laterita flower. I must try that one outside here soon. The only problem would be space for the runners to run! I'm wondering how I'm going to prepare a bed for M. itinerans var. xishuangbannaensis...very large, I suppose. Either that or install a barrier, like they do for bamboo. Nah...I'll just dig a large bed :0490: !