Wondering if my banana is Musa basjoo

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:48 am

Last fall (2010) bought a banana plant to be sold as Musa basjoo.
It have being overwintering inside. Recently posted pictures of my plant at the Ukrainian myflora.org.ua. The guys doubt if it's a true basjoo. No pink midrib on the leaves. Any ideas what kind of banana mine is? Thanks in advance...

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:06 pm

Doesn't look like Basjoo to me,may be some type of Orinoco.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:35 am

Jim, thanks for wonderful finding! Will try to learn more about the Orinoco.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:23 pm

My musa's shredded leaves didn't look anything like your bottom leaf.

Your bottom leaf looks orderly, almost like a philodendron.

And musa leaves never get that luscious and wide.

It's a beauty.
Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:30 am

hardyjim wrote:Doesn't look like Basjoo to me,may be some type of Orinoco.

Jim, wouldn't able finding your story about the Fairfield fruiting banana. What's going on with this guy?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:36 pm

Still has fruit on it,hasn't changed much.
I will take some pics soon,it has just been such
a crappy year with cold and hail early,then hail
and then hot as hell,then back to nice with hail
and dry as a ******* bone the last 3 months.

At one point today the temp was 79F
Humidity 4%-Dewpoint -6F!

That is VERY unusual for almost anywhere
especially the mid-west!!!!!!!!

Most of my plants are burnt from heat or look like Swiss cheese!

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:45 pm

[quote="igor.glukhovtsev"]Last fall (2010) bought a banana plant to be sold as Musa basjoo.
It have being overwintering inside. Recently posted pictures of my plant at the Ukrainian myflora.org.ua. The guys doubt if it's a true basjoo. No pink midrib on the leaves. Any ideas what kind of banana mine is? Thanks in advance...

Looks like my basjoos which have been outside for 3 years, zone 6b/7a.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:20 am

Id say its not a Basjoo. The giveaway for me is the non "droopy" leaves..

How big is the one you have? It looks like 5 or 6 feet to me, but its hard to tell. Either way, the leaves look different compared to my small basjoo, and acuminata. It looks closer to my small musella..... But, once again, im not an expert

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:06 am

canadianplant wrote:Id say its not a Basjoo. The giveaway for me is the non "droopy" leaves..
How big is the one you have? It looks like 5 or 6 feet to me, but its hard to tell. Either way, the leaves look different compared to my small basjoo, and acuminata. It looks closer to my small musella..... But, once again, im not an expert

Sorry Jesse, are you addressing to the seedscanada or to me?
Here are the pictures of my baby:

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:08 am

Sorry, I was replying to your first post, and the pics on that.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:12 am

Love the last photo, Igor!

No matter the ceiling height, we'll all push it with our overwintered plants.
...Unless we place the plant on the bottom step of an interior staircase that wends its way up two or three floors...

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:13 am

You can easily overwinter that in your zone....
not now

I threw a 1/2 trashcan of leaves over some of
mine last winter(low temp was -8F)they came back.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:13 am

canadianplant wrote:Id say its not a Basjoo. The giveaway for me is the non "droopy" leaves..

Believe me my banana plant has the same special "droopy leaves" design once it gets to much sun on

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:34 am

lucky1 wrote:Love the last photo, Igor!

Barb, hope you don't blame me for my dusty bachelor floor... Actually this so called library room is only the one in my house having a huge window... I understand a height is making the banana crying...
Jim, I'll leave it or them in the ground next year. This baby is my first experience ever growing any exotic plants. You have Florida "exporting" the tons of subtropical stuff all over the North America. We have only the Dutch suppliers and only one the monopolist selling just a few species of the such plants for the big bucks! That's why I have to be very frugal if I want to go on with the "exotic plants"...

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:00 pm

Ok I agree, even MY basjoos have droopy leaves... that likely is not basjoo. The Florida nurseries commonly sell: zebrina rojo, cavendish dwarf, and misi luki. I have had all four including basjoo... and this reminds me of when my misi lukis were 10 feet tall with a trunk base 8 inches across... the leaves looked as in these photos. We too brought ours indoors overwinter.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:09 am

Looks good Igor. You don't think they would have lasted outside? Did you leave any of the pups outside to overwinter?? Nice library too!!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:09 am

Looks good Igor. You don't think they would have lasted outside? Did you leave any of the pups outside to overwinter?? Nice library too!!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:11 am

Thanks, Mike! Since this is my first banana ever I didn't leave any outside. Next year would once I'll get enough plants to be a right time for experimenting. The library... we sold the most of our books before the family moved to Canada. Not so many left.The only hardcover books I read are the English language ones about the plants lol. The others are audibooks I'm listening in the traffic-jams.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:09 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Thanks, Mike! Since this is my first banana ever I didn't leave any outside. Next year would once I'll get enough plants to be a right time for experimenting. The library... we sold the most of our books before the family moved to Canada. Not so many left.The only hardcover books I read are the English language ones about the plants lol. The others are audibooks I'm listening in the traffic-jams.

Traffic that bad there?

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:29 am

Oh, yeah but improving slowly due to construction of new highways and interchanges.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:22 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Oh, yeah but improving slowly due to construction of new highways and interchanges.

great!

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