Banana Repository
 

Does anyone know if a good and extensive living collection of bananas exists (not dried up herbarium samples or frozen cells)?

perhaps it is time some people started one? the whole banana family is such a mess with so many overlapping names, and so many varieties. perhaps a place is needed to properly keep and grow stock plants for comparison with 'type' and also for the preservation of species and cultivars.

Re: Banana Repository
 

i would be more then will to let someone use my back yard.....LOL!

Re: Banana Repository
 

if only someone would get it started and going i'd be keen to send it tonnes of material!

Re: Banana Repository
 

Banana Bioversity International -- - Banana Home
also see http://195.220.148.3:8013/mgis_2/homepage.htm

Not only do they hold the world banana genebank held in vitro, they organize and compile research done by the many different banana research stations around the world.