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Omaha_Banana
10-11-2015, 12:32 PM
I was digging up a banana tree and had a tough time. Finally it came out and it has these giant root things growing out of the corm. What are these?

Now I have to get a giant pot to put this plant in for the winter :P


http://i.imgur.com/qQmtgsB.jpg

chris_zx2
10-11-2015, 11:41 PM
Isnt that just part of the corm? Basjoo send pups out several feet away and they grow from the corm right?

Sorry if I'm way off!

Omaha_Banana
10-12-2015, 03:50 PM
I ended up cutting it off and potting the plant. I still don't know what it is. Googling turned up nothing. There's another one on there that's smaller.

I think it's a Thai Black plant.

Kat2
10-12-2015, 06:20 PM
I ended up cutting it off and potting the plant. I still don't know what it is. Googling turned up nothing. There's another one on there that's smaller.

I think it's a Thai Black plant.Many tropical roots are edible; I wonder if this one is. (Think elephant ears--eddo roots. Don't laugh! Someone somewhere ate the 1st yam and Irish spud. And, of course, the tomato.)

Kegas76
10-12-2015, 09:28 PM
Is that a corm or are you just happy to see me?:ha:

Yuri Barros
10-13-2015, 09:19 AM
This is nice.............

Rare to see..............

For me this is the way the mat send the pups...............as said before............by chris..............

blownz281
10-13-2015, 10:07 AM
The P-stem is black like my Black Thai, but the rest of the plant is darker then yours. Could be the picture of yours.

chris_zx2
10-13-2015, 10:44 AM
Is that a corm or are you just happy to see me?:ha:

What a cormy joke....:D

MDbasjoo
10-13-2015, 07:20 PM
It's a rhizome... basically a big subterranean stem that eventually sprouts a new plant.

These are Musa 'Mekong Giant' rhizomes but they look very similar to what you have.

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