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SixtySix
07-31-2017, 08:19 AM
Went to the Atlanta Botanical Garden this weekend to check out their carnivorous plants collections (Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, drosera, neps).
Saw plenty of banana trees but this one really caught my eye.
Can it survive in zone 8?
https://i.imgur.com/F1ZAEAQ.jpg
Island Brah
07-31-2017, 08:50 AM
Absolutely it can! We have about 10-15 of those flowering now 35 miles northeast of Atlanta on the border of 7b and 8a. They grow like weeds and survive the winter with just light mulch/pine straw. You probably don't even have to do anything to them and they will live through the winter.
Darkman
07-31-2017, 08:54 PM
I believe I have that one growing in deep shade but I don't know the name. What is it called?
Gabe15
07-31-2017, 09:36 PM
It is Musa velutina.
Darkman
07-31-2017, 10:52 PM
Thanks for releasing my memories. That is the variety that I have. I think I got mine from Coast Crab in Mobile Al.
Jose263
08-01-2017, 07:36 AM
Thanks for releasing my memories. That is the variety that I have. I think I got mine from Coast Crab in Mobile Al.
AKA "pink velvet" - mine love shade too.
AND, they peel themselves... smart nanas :woohoonaner:
Darkman
08-01-2017, 08:33 AM
I would say mine are self sustaining but they definitely aren't going to take over the bed. Like all my bananas this year that bloomed there were not many nanas showing after the bloom and the hands were not filled out. I may need a bee hive.
Zacarias
08-01-2017, 10:10 AM
I have two small Velutinas that I got from Annie's Annuals. They were really small when I got them but when I moved from the Seattle area to San Diego once again, I literally smashed one of them accidentally and the pseudostem was hanging on by a small root only. It survived and now it's like 1.5 foot tall now. I have to transplant them. I hope they bloom this winter here in San Diego.
obdiah
08-02-2017, 09:16 AM
grow well in zone 7 and survive winter with no help if well established also once established the grow like weeds I have a dozen or so flowering now started mine from seed also can be eaten but not very good and full of seeds
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