Re: Attention all Musa-experts
Hi Guys I now have what we consider to be the definitive update on what all these species are.
The one that I applied the temporary name of ‘Musa New yellow flower’ is in fact the plant with the orange upright bud, and is now confirmed to be Musa aurantiaca. There was some confusion as to which plant these seeds came from, and for a while we thought they came from the waxy-leaved plant with the yellow flower and yellow midrib. That plant has now been confirmed to be the true to type Musa nagensium. Seeds will be here soon. Interestingly the M. nagensium that you are all familiar with originating out of cultivation in India, and which is much darker in various places on the plant, and also has slightly smaller seeds is not the true to type form, and may well be a hybrid.
The black-stemmed plant is a very dark form of Musa cheesmanii.
The Musa velutina is considered to be just that, but the difference is that this plant grows quite a bit larger than the norm.
We also have a new one on its way. Can anyone tell me of a plant from the India/Burma region, which retains a completely green flower throughout? That’s what we’ve apparently got coming.
Of the attached images:
scan0004 is Musa aurantiaca
snap2 is The true to type Musa nagensium
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