Little banana need her own ID
 

Maybe she is to young for good identification but if someone can help I will be grateful.

Re: Little banana need her own ID
 

It is to young for a proper ID but seems like a Sikkimensis sport.
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Re: Little banana need her own ID
 

In my opinion it is Sikkimensis, but this one is to different than other, because she is much taller, and pseudostem is so thin.

Re: Little banana need her own ID
 

Like everything else raised from seeds.
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Re: Little banana need her own ID
 

Yohanan,

How did you come by this plant? Was it a seedling?

Thanks,

shannon

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Re: Little banana need her own ID
 

Shannon,

I bought some seeds of Musa sikkimensis from internet. So this plant is from seed. But when I saw how she look after a few days, I saw that she is much different than other plants from same package. So, first I was thinking maybe seller made mistake and put one seed of acuminata or someone else bananas.

Re: Little banana need her own ID
 

Yohanan,

I have a seedling just like that;it was from a batch of open pollinated Musa acuminata malaccensis that might have had genetic admixture with two "acuminata" accessions from Assam, India more than 6 decades ago.

It looks just like your plant - including the undulant leaf margins; undersurface colouration; and I suspect the peculiarities of leaf venation.

It came as a complete surprise to me! The other seedlings were mostly typical. Not at all this divergent!


I'll get photos when next I visit my seedling gardens next week.

Maybe you could keep me in the loop about your seedling's development? It would be very interesting to compare notes.


shannon

shannon.di.corse@gmail.com

Re: Little banana need her own ID
 

Shannon,

I will continue to post the pic of my banana every few weeks and we can compare our plants.

Thats why we here ;)