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Old 06-24-2009, 06:36 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Default Re: Variegated Banana Id ! Please Help Us!

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Originally Posted by tophersmith View Post
I'll bet it's been either malnurished or had a little to much fertilizer. I have found this happens to my Ice Cream from time to time. I don't think Lowes or Home Depot purchased any Margaritas this year.
Hey Chris, I would agree with you that Lowes or HD didn't purchase anything labeled as 'Margarita' this year. Lowes, however, did purchase a bunch of 'Siam Ruby' bananas and mislabel them as Musa zebrina. As you may or may not know, 'Margarita' is just the name they gave to the green form of 'Siam Ruby', which was an accident from tissue culture.

It's not any variegation to write home about, and it probably isn't stable, but it is still variegation. I have an Ensete ventricosum with this type of variegation on it that burns horrible in the sun on the white parts, and also crinkles on the white parts. Who wants that? Well...I still have it, LOL! Just because it has some variegation in it, I can't seem to let it die.

Frank
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