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Species Bananas Discussions of all the different wild species of banana (non edible), an aspect of the hobby that's been getting a lot of interest lately.

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Old 10-17-2007, 10:34 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Here's Musa thompsonii. Not the fastest grower, but doesn't mind cool nights like in the Northern California coastal hills. And it also likes alot of day time heat. It came back form the stalk just fine as did just afew other cold hardy types. These 2 are from TC.
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Good to hear about its potential cold-hardiness! I've heard mixed reviews so far. I had one in the ground this year, but planted it on a dry slope, so it didn't grow hardly any this year. That and it burned up for some reason. I think it likes some shade. I dug mine up and moved it to the greenhouse, and will find a better spot for it next year. Hayes has one in Anniston that is pretty good-sized. We'll see how hardy it is in a southern zone 8a. I assume those were from Agri-Starts? They look great! It is very slow here, but again I think that's because of the siting and the drought.
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Yeah they do seem to need some filtered sun, and alot of water. If they hadn't come back from the stem, I wouldn't have been nearly as happy overall with this plant, cause they are kinda slow. I'm pretty sure some smaller tissue culture company is doing them. I got these two off ebay, and I noticed that Brian Williams also has them occassionally. Maybe someone with "Plant Delights" is the one TCing them?
Here's the same two a year earlier in the same 15 gallon pot. Maybe they were stunted?


Here's how the leaf meets petiole. That's one way Musa balbisiana is identified, but M.thompsoni and, M.initerans both have the same leaf thing going on.

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