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the flying dutchman
09-16-2010, 11:42 AM
Am I mistaking or is this really an Ensete on the photo?

Anybody else old pictures with Bananas on it, could be interesting
to see where they grew many years ago.

Old paintings count too..:)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36676 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8514)


Ron

Jack Daw
09-17-2010, 05:24 PM
And basjoo shaped leaves in the background, closer to the buidling. Yup, it really does look banany there.

sunfish
09-18-2010, 08:17 AM
http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/madge/teme0b4seg381/original/teme0b4seg381_original.jpg

the flying dutchman
09-18-2010, 03:49 PM
I would say it looks like an Afirican Ensete Ventricosum but it wasn't
described properly I think in 1905. In any case, this is the proof it was cultivated in Holland around that time. I have seen another picture from it around 1900 in Holland but can't find it at the moment.


Ron...