Re: M. Basjoo seeds
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Originally Posted by tony palmer
Erlend,
i bought the seeds in 1996 as did Paul Spracklin of the UK Oasis
and a number of people i know, the seed were collected on the island of
Ryuk south of Japan, i dont know that there is any other banana on there
other than Basjoo?, i have never seen them for sale since then but if i do
i will let you know.
Tony
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There is Musa balbisiana there too, Ito-Basho (sometimes called Musa liukiuensis or M. babisiana var. liukiuensis) which is the true original Japanese fiber banana. But this plant is very easy to tell apart from M. basjoo.
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