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Originally Posted by Tropicallvr
Here's the description of Musa nagensium- Musa nagensium
Now the description of Musa cheesmani- Musa cheesmani
From those descriptions it seems like the nagensium isn't in cultivation, and the seeds being sold as Musa nagesium are actually Musa cheesmani.
As far as I know none of the seeds sold as Musa nagensium turned out looking like this awesome plant- Musa nagensium images
Trebrown did import some seeds of a really dark stemmed plant from the area that nagensium grows, but it may have just been another cheesmani, did anyone order any of those seeds and get a sprout or two. It would be pretty easy to tell if it was different than the other ones, because the leafs are so distinct even at an early stage.
Here's a thread on Trebrown, but it seems a jumble of mix up since my M.auranticana from him doesn't have leaves like that at all.
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Not one of my Musa cheesmani from Phil sprouted (yet), which is interesting in itself, seeing as how easy cheesmani seeds usually germinate. I don't think the M. aurantiaca seeds are what they are labeled as either, but it will be interesting to see the flower.
Markku Hakkinen has an article coming out next year, I think, in which he describes Musa nagensium. That should help to clear things up quite a bit.