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PrancingRat
11-06-2018, 07:30 AM
Hi, there!
Bagging your pardon, but I was not able to figure out how to embed images, so I have an album on yandex.

https://yadi.sk/a/UoVnKzyqACm46w

May be someone can name the specimen. It called here as "Local banana", but odds are that its just introduced here long time ago (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7529284,39.8837478,13z). It never brings any fruit and is frozen down to the ground level every year. It resprouts next spring and can reach as high as 3, may be 4 meters high (if watered regularly).

Any ideas?

cincinnana
11-08-2018, 01:57 PM
Hi, there!
Bagging your pardon, but I was not able to figure out how to embed images, so I have an album on yandex.

https://yadi.sk/a/UoVnKzyqACm46w

May be someone can name the specimen. It called here as "Local banana", but odds are that its just introduced here long time ago (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7529284,39.8837478,13z). It never brings any fruit and is frozen down to the ground level every year. It resprouts next spring and can reach as high as 3, may be 4 meters high (if watered regularly).

Any ideas?

There is a very good chance it is a form of Musa basjoo (http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Basjoo) which is cold hardy.
Do a Yandex search keyword Siberian banana that should get you a few more answers.

PrancingRat
11-08-2018, 03:09 PM
There is a very good chance it is a form of Musa basjoo (http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Basjoo) which is cold hardy.
Do a Yandex search keyword Siberian banana that should get you a few more answers.

Thanks for the tip!