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Tropicallvr
09-25-2008, 12:02 PM
Just happened across this picture of a Musa itinerans that is a beauty-
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/a0327e/a0327e02.pdf

bigdog
09-25-2008, 03:06 PM
I'd almost be willing to bet that is a misidentified Musa sikkimensis. It is a beauty though! Wish mine would keep the color on its leaves at that size. Oh well...

Tropicallvr
09-25-2008, 05:45 PM
That's what I thought at first glance, but they get the benifit of the doubt from me since it kinda looks like it's a running banana. Whatever it is it's looks kinda like the cold hardy version of the Siam 50/50 on the top surface of the leaf.

tony palmer
09-26-2008, 03:26 AM
Nice colouration whatever it is, thanks for the pictures Kyle.:nanadrink:

griphuz
09-26-2008, 03:31 AM
Omg, not another var of itinerans!!!
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What makes itinerans itinerans anyway? When do you define a banana to be an itinerans? I have read the discriptions in the itinerans var. article, but it's the similarities that I've lost a bit...?
Kind regards,
Remko.

Tropicallvr
09-26-2008, 08:16 AM
Good question. I'm guessing that it's based on the running ability, and not the flowers since alot of the flowers are so different.

Bananaman88
09-26-2008, 03:23 PM
Sikkimensis was my first thought when I saw it as well.

griphuz
09-27-2008, 06:13 PM
But the running ability is not present in all forms of itinerans (e.g. not in var. tinerans) right?
Kind regards,
Remko.

bigdog
09-27-2008, 11:13 PM
That's half-correct. Var. itinerans is a runner, but there are varieties that are not (var. guangdongensis, var. chinensis, and var. lechangensis).

Hard to tell from that picture if it is indeed a runner. That coloration just looks a lot like M. sikkimensis. I suppose it's possible that there are more itinerans varieties around though. Dr. Hugo Volkaert told me that he could show me 20 different varieties in Thailand alone!