tony palmer

Frank its worth pointing out that although in the wild these forest bananas grow very tall because there competing for light, when grown in the US and Europe they will flower at half the recorded height of that in the wild and some times less then that,
For example

In the wild Basjoo will flower on a 5 meter stem some times more, for us 2.5m?
In the wild Yunnanensis 10 meter stem, for us 3 meters. Look at Ralph’s picture it doesn’t look very tall to me.
I bet the same could be said of Xishuangbannaensis whenever we get the chance to try it. I just don’t won’t people to be put of trying them because of the height they attain in the wild