Originally Posted by bigdog

I've seen those sites before. Ralph is a madman. LOL! One thing I'd like to point out on his site, is that Musa itinerans v. guangdongensis is not 'Burmese Blue'. 'Burmese Blue' is probably not even in cultivation yet, but a few could have it. It grows a pseudostem almost as tall as var. xishuangbannaensis, around 30-35 feet tall. Var. guangdongensis pseudostems top out at around 4.5 meters, according to Hakkinen's description. Another thing, is that var. guangdongensis has a clumping habit, not a rhizomatous habit. The one in the picture on the German forum clearly has a rhizomatous habit.

One other thing...Ralph's Musa itinerans 'Yunnan' banana is actually Musa yunnanensis. He has pictures of it flowering, which made it real easy to ID. Interestingly enough, he has another banana correctly identified as M. yunannense (well, should be yunnanensis) that is flowering as well. It looks identical to the other one!