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tjwalters
09-05-2015, 05:30 PM
Is it possible to get an Id on this banana? It was grown from seed (RarePalmSeeds.com). After one year the seeds hadn't germinated, so I recycled the soil (and seeds). Two years later, little bananas began popping up. I had ordered/planted several species. I recognized one of the others that germinated as Ensete glaucum, but this Musa I do not recognize.
Thanks.
http://home.comcast.net/~tjsphotos/Plants/Zingiberales/Musaceae/Musa/Unknown.20150905-01.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~tjsphotos/Plants/Zingiberales/Musaceae/Musa/Unknown.20150905-02.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~tjsphotos/Plants/Zingiberales/Musaceae/Musa/Unknown.20150905-03.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~tjsphotos/Plants/Zingiberales/Musaceae/Musa/Unknown.20150905-04.jpg
jmoore
09-06-2015, 02:31 AM
It's a very nice looking banana!
Listing what you ordered might help to narrow it down. I know they sell lots of Borneo bananas so it could be one of those, they take a long time to germinate.
tjwalters
09-06-2015, 06:50 AM
It's a very nice looking banana!
Listing what you ordered might help to narrow it down. I know they sell lots of Borneo bananas so it could be one of those, they take a long time to germinate.
Something I should have done before posting. :) I went back through old receipts and found this from 3 years ago:
Ensete glaucum
Ensete livingstonianum (= Ensete gilletii)
Musa balbisiana var. balbisiana
I don't think it's Ensete, so that leaves only one choice: M. balbisiana. It does appear similar to a few images I found online. Of course, there's always the possibility the seeds were mislabeled.
jmoore
09-06-2015, 09:13 AM
Definitely not an ensete, but a very nice plant. I'm tempted to get some seeds. I was going to say Balbisiana Atia Black, but I'm not sure that RPS sell that variety.
siege2050
09-06-2015, 12:17 PM
Its not Enstete, most likely the Balbisiana. Photos I looked at online do have the black lines on the edges of the leaf sheaths around the pstem like the ones in your photo.
Very nice looking plant:woohoonaner:
tjwalters
09-06-2015, 06:01 PM
Its not Enstete, most likely the Balbisiana. Photos I looked at online do have the black lines on the edges of the leaf sheaths around the pstem like the ones in your photo.
Yep - not Ensete. Now I have to go look at all the other seedlings that popped up to see if any might be E. livingstonianum.
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