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milantropicallover
10-17-2010, 05:53 AM
last winter i grow up from seeds a lot of musa and ensete species, obviosly to much to don't make a mess with the labels, eheh, help me pleaseee!
a lot of them are in the garage to overwinter so it's to late to let u see them, some are indoor:

first one,9 month old, the most curios, it's really elegant, 3 feet tall pseudosthem and two feet tall foliage, pseudosthem kind of red , foliage dark green:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37581&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37581&ppuser=6586)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37580&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37580&ppuser=6586)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37579&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37579&ppuser=6586)

Second one, 9 months old, seems to be an ensete ( no ventricosum) or musella lasiocarpa or musa velutina???

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37584&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37584)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37583&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37583)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37582&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37582)

another one, as the one above??


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37585&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37585)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37589&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37589)


this one seems to be a sikkimensis ( may be darleyng giant?) or zebrina?



http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37587&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37587)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37586&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37586)

Thanks a lot to everybody from MIlan!!

Jack Daw
10-17-2010, 11:26 AM
Ciao, your guesses are as good as mine. Except for the fat "banana", that seems to be an Ensete glaucum (or maybe superbum?). If it were Chinese Lotus Banana, it would already have many pups at that trunk diameter.

milantropicallover
10-20-2010, 02:33 AM
Thanks Jack!

And what could you tell me about the first one?
I can't really find anything close to that musa.
Since that i've grown it from seed my guess is that it's some kind of variation of another specie.
Red pseudostem with green dark foliage is quite unusual, isn't it?

Ciao!