door draco op 08 okt 2009 19:19
Musa yunnanensis
Yunnan Banana
A beautiful, high altitude banana from China's Yunnan Province that has proven to be a very interesting cold tolerant species that will thrive under similar conditions as the legendary Musa basjoo and M. sikkimensis, even though not quite as hardy. It is a slender- stemmed, extremely fast growing plant with large leaves supported by waxy white leaf stalks. Some confusion surrounds the introduction of this banana into cultivation: It originally came to us misidentified as Ensete wilsonii, was subsequently thought to be Musa itinerans, as which we have had it in our assortment for a long time, and it now turns out to be a new species, described in 2007 by Markku Hakkinen as Musa yunnanensis
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