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What is this? Giant root?
I was digging up a banana tree and had a tough time. Finally it came out and it has these giant root things growing out of the corm. What are these?
Now I have to get a giant pot to put this plant in for the winter :P |
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10-11-2015, 11:41 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
Isnt that just part of the corm? Basjoo send pups out several feet away and they grow from the corm right?
Sorry if I'm way off!
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
I ended up cutting it off and potting the plant. I still don't know what it is. Googling turned up nothing. There's another one on there that's smaller.
I think it's a Thai Black plant. |
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
Many tropical roots are edible; I wonder if this one is. (Think elephant ears--eddo roots. Don't laugh! Someone somewhere ate the 1st yam and Irish spud. And, of course, the tomato.)
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
Is that a corm or are you just happy to see me?
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
This is nice.............
Rare to see.............. For me this is the way the mat send the pups...............as said before............by chris.............. |
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
The P-stem is black like my Black Thai, but the rest of the plant is darker then yours. Could be the picture of yours.
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
What a cormy joke....
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Re: What is this? Giant root?
It's a rhizome... basically a big subterranean stem that eventually sprouts a new plant.
These are Musa 'Mekong Giant' rhizomes but they look very similar to what you have. bambooweb.info • View topic - Musa mekong giant running banana plant |
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