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Mark Hall
10-14-2008, 03:16 AM
I visited the Oxford Botanical gardens last week and they had a small mat of bananas labeled as Textilis.
Now the pictures I have seen of Textilis didn't look anything like the plants they have.
I have loaded 3 pictures into my gallery for you to see.
The psuedo stem was around 6 ft tall and a nice burgundy colour.
There is also a picture of the flower.
Many thanks
Gabe15
10-14-2008, 03:36 AM
Looks like a Musa mannii hybrid with another Rhodochlamys something like M. ornata perhaps (with exactly what, who knows, but its definitely not the pure species). Interesting, but not M. textilis.
Gabe15
10-14-2008, 03:46 AM
This is the only true M. textilis I have seen in person, everything else labled as M. textilis I have seen is usually a type of M. balbisiana. There are however many different types of M. textilis, it is a very variable species due to wide cultivation for fiber, so some of the types will look different from each other, but they still are all rather similar.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=13887&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13887&ppuser=5)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=13886&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13886&ppuser=5)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=13884&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13884&ppuser=5)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=13885&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13885&ppuser=5)
PS- please pardon the turned photos, but it seems the built in photo rotator is malfunctioning so it will have to do for now.
Mark Hall
10-14-2008, 04:29 AM
Thanks Gabe. I did think it looked a bit like my Mannii minus the little ruffles on the petioles.
It was a lot taller than mine too!! All the mannii I have seen are around 5ft tall and that with the leaves too.
I am still going to see if they will sell me a plant:ha:
Mark Hall
12-01-2008, 04:32 AM
Gabe, I went back last week.And Planted right next door to it is Ornata Lavender ( also in flower). So that could be the X you mentioned.
There is a picture of them in my Gallery.
Mark Hall
10-05-2010, 07:43 AM
It would seem that the Bristol Botanical gardens have the same looking plants as the oxford one. This mat of Bananas had loads of tiny plants that had germinated underneath them. I managed to borrow a few along with some over ripe seedpods.
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