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Originally Posted by damaclese
thats interesting looking all bet that white leaf will turn all brown and crispy even in a tempered climate it reminds my of one of my Musa Margareta it has thees single bold splashes of red a throwback to its Siam Ruby heritage i think its cool too but not what its spouse to look like i would worry about the Ae Ae becoming week and unstable over the long hall id pass on this one
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Agreed. Ae Ae follows the same registry guidelines that the ICRA/ISHS uses which means that there's a specific % of acceptable variegation and pattern for it to be called Ae Ae. It might be a pup, but when a lateral shoot creates a certain amount of flux in it's chimeras, then it becomes something else (just like MANY others are Sports of another cv.). The registry is set up just for this purpose. I would call this an 'Ae Ae Sport', and not just Ae Ae, for better or worse. There also needs to be a certain amount of chlorophyll to be present, or the foliage cannot photosynthesize, and these leaves will continue to fail, as someone had noted 'crispy'. This will likely result in quite an uneven looking, off-balance adult tree.