Re: Can We Clear up Musa itinerans...PLEASE?
I would guess it to be a Musa yunnanensis variety as Musa itinerans is a traveling banana, so that is the first thing to notice even if its not flowering. Seed dealers rarely seem to get identification right on new varieties. There are also lots of new undescribed varieties (new species and variations of previously described species) coming out of Yunnan, so who knows. When they go out and collect these plants they could be anything.
Musa itinerans var. itinerans (the original form) has whitish fruit a dark purple (solid) male bud. M. itinerans var. xishuangbannaensis seems to be very similar to var. itinerans except much larger. Other M. itinerans varieties sometimes have striations on the male bud.
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Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.
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