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Old 10-11-2015, 12:32 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Default 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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Old 10-11-2015, 11:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Default 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?

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Default 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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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.
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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Is that a corm or are you just happy to see me?
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Default 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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Default 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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Default 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.

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