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austinl01
12-01-2007, 07:39 PM
This is a very good year for growing bananas in Arkansas. While the summer was dry, we had bought of rain here and there with just a slight drought. I was awarded with blooms from my two types of bananas: musa basjoo and musella lasiocarpa. My musa basjoo clump is 3 years old. My musella started producing a flower in early spring and continued to produce flowers all along the pseudostem all summer. The blooms lasted throughout the growing season.

Musa basjoo
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=7027&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7027)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=7030&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7030)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=7029&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7029&ppuser=206)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=7024&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7024&ppuser=206)


Musella lasiocarpa
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=7026&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7026&ppuser=206)http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=7025&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7025&ppuser=206)

Austin
Little Rock, AR

bigdog
12-02-2007, 12:30 AM
Nice pics, Austin. Your Musella is the most prolific-flowering Musella I've ever seen! Amazing.

bencelest
12-02-2007, 10:14 AM
You are in paradise.