I have really been wondering recently about the sikkimensis "hybrids." Does this species just readily form hybrids with whatever is nearby?? Simmonds stated that he saw differences in the species in different localities (Manipur, Sikkim, etc.), so I wonder if some of them are still just Musa sikkimensis, and not a hybrid at all. Just a variety of the species, or a subspecies. DNA tests are needed to sort that all out, and I don't think anybody's very concerned about doing that anytime soon, so we will be left to speculate on that for a long time I imagine.
My 'Darjeeling Giant' is getting big in the greenhouse, and has 3 new pups. Can't wait for spring to get it in the ground!
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Originally Posted by austinl01
Thanks for the info. I didn't know what this word meant. It just sounded tropical to me!
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I think the name Musa paradisiaca, literally translated from Latin, means "Heavenly Muse." Erlend was just saying that any banana called M. paradisiaca is really just another name for a unknown variety of banana. It's more complicated than that though...
Nomenclature