Originally Posted by Bonnie

It wintered over in a greenhouse and made slow growth throughout the winter because we only heat to 55 degrees.
We had the sides of the greenhouse rolled up when it went down to the upper 40's last week. So 2 nights in a row it was chilly in the greenhouse.
You may recall this picture I posted in April.

Originally Posted by Gabe15

I never had seed in this cultivar, but I may have posted about true M. acuminata subsp. zebrina containing seed in the past.

For how well distributed this plant is, there is really no well documented information on it. Mostly it has just been called "Zebrina" or "Sumatrana" or "Blood Banana", however those names, at least the first 2, are taken from 2 wild plants, Musa acuminata subsp. zebrina and Musa acuminata subsp. sumtrana, both are different from eachother, and neither are this plant. Bill Lessard claimed in his book to have created a hybrid between 'Grand Nain' and M. acuminata subsp. zebrina, they way he described what he did is not impossible, but so highly unlikely that it make's it seem like either a fake story or there was some mixup along the way, however we are left with this odd plant which seems to be exactly that, a Cavendish-wild M. acuminata hybrid, but this has not been verified to my knowledge, so I'm very hesitant to say that's what it is exactly without figuring out more about it.



I see what you are saying about the different plants in there, it does look like there are 2 different plants in that pot, Bonnie would have to verify this.

Originally Posted by Juicy Bananas

It does look a lot like the Red Rowe.