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09-29-2008, 09:03 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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I this banana, canna or bop?
Can someone please id this plant for me? It looks like banana and not canna. But also looks like Bird of paradise. What is the exact name if it was a banana?
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Re: I this banana, canna or bop?
looks like a canna
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Re: I this banana, canna or bop?
I vote canna.
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Re: I this banana, canna or bop?
Looks more like a small type of Heliconia to me, something like H. psittacorum or H. hirsuta maybe?
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Re: I this banana, canna or bop?
Thanks folks. I contacted the owner of that garden. He told me it's Canna Richard Wallace. I can sleep well now.
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Re: I this banana, canna or bop?
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Glad you got it ID'd though Neil.
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