Originally Posted by jeffreyp

Where can you buy fei corms? Anyone?

Originally Posted by Gabe15

fe'i bananas are a group of cooking bananas belonging to the subgenera Australimusa (as opposed to Eumusa as is the case with other edible bananas) and evolved completely separate from the bananas we are most familiar with. They were once an important food, but have been replaced by other crops and are harder to come by these days, the plants are virtually unknown in the horticulture trade and rare to see even in botanic gardens. They generally have erect bunches and fruits with a bright orange pulp.

Originally Posted by damaclese

Fei are a type of banana that grow in and around Polynesia the are well adapted to that climate able to withstand the severe heat and long dry spells that some times plague many inlands when you cut them they bleed red sap its vary pretty but staining the fruit is Orange in color just about all us want a plant i think they would do well here in NV but there vary hard to come by no on seems to be abal to get them

heres a link to a nice discution on fei
Musa 'Aiuri', fe'i banana

Originally Posted by Rmplmnz

Last person I know of that grew them in the continental US was Bill Lessard (former owner of Going Bananas Homestead, FL and author of "The Complete Book of Bananas")....