Musa 'Ae Ae'

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Contents 1 Cultivar Name 1.1 Synonyms 2 Pictures 3 Description 3.1 Origin 3.2 Usage 4 Flowering 5 Cultivation 5.1 Known Afflictions 6 Research Notes 6.1 Members Growing This Banana 7 External

Cultivar Name

The single most mentioned or accepted cultivar name.

Synonyms

Musa 'aeae', Musa 'ae ae', Musa AeAe, Musa aeae, Musa 'AeAe', ae ae, AeAe, aeae, AEAE, Ae Ae, Sacred Banana, Koae, Hawaiian variegated

Pictures

• (Local file links to display the various pictures.)

Description

Spectacular variegated leaves of multishades of green and white colors and they even produce variegated fruit. Fruit is tasty ripe or cooked. Primarily a dessert banana. This banana is very rare and limited in supply. This plant is very expensive. It has not yet been propagated successfully using tissue culture. Only one in 4 pups retain the white variegation of the mother corm. That is why it remains rare. This variety has a colorful foliage. green and white. Need some special care to show its best: acid soil (ph 6.0 or less) , partial shade and protection from high winds to prevent drying and sun burning. Beautiful but demanding Acid soil ph 6.0 or less mandatory. partial shade.

• Genetic Group - AA?

Origin

Hawaii

Usage

Cooking, dessert, and ornamental foliage. Unusual because it's not common for a banana to share these three uses.

Flowering

General description of the bloom, unique flower features, etc.

• Time To Bloom - (Average number of days to maturity starting from 1 ft pup pseudostem height under tropical conditions. If this is known, one can extrapolate this into number of warm days here in the US and estimate how long it would take to bloom.)

• Time To Harvest - (Average number of days (starting from full flag leaf extrusion) to harvest (when the first hands start to turn yellow) under tropical conditions. Again, this can be extrapolated into the US growing conditions by counting the number of warm days under our conditions. Together with the number of days to bloom, the overall speed can be ranked as to which are fast growing or not.)

Cultivation

• Mature Height - 18ft.

• Survival Zone - 9b

• Fruiting Zone -

• Cold Hardiness General - (The general accepted cold hardiness zone based on review.)
  • Cold Hardiness Personal - (Your personal cold hardiness scoring based on actual experiences relative to other cultivars grown and also from interviews of reliable friends and colleagues about their experiences in growing the same banana in their USDA zones. After you input data in this field, please sign your entry using these characters ~~~~ (four tildes). This will insert your name and the timestamp.

• Wind - (Your experience with this banana and it's resistance to wind)

• Taste Description - (General taste description and average of personal ranking by various growers.)

• PersonalNotes - (Personal notes about this variety as it performs in your yard. Start a new line by using an asterisk. After you input data in this field, please sign your entry using these characters ~~~~ (four tildes). This will insert your name and the timestamp.

Known Afflictions

• Pests -

• Susceptible Diseases - (Known diseases that this cultivar is susceptible to)

• Resistant Diseases - (Known diseases that this cultivar is resistant to)

Research Notes

• All useful research note compilations.

• Links to useful discussion threads in the forum (aside from the discuss tab at the top of this page), like this:

California Gold

• Typical Price Range - (Common prices, including shipping and handling.)

Members Growing This Banana

External

• Links

  Example: International Banana Society

• Sources

  Where this cultivar may be acquired; possible listing of sources and other nurseries.