Gabe15

It is always mixed up in the trade, and pretty much all new Rhodochlamys (and sometimes Callimusa species too) plants are given the name Musa oranta 'whatever', I think because M. ornata is a popular plant, and catchy too (ornata=ornate, ornamental), so they began calling everything ornata (even though some already had valid scientific names long before they went into cultivation).

Musa ornata in reality is just one plant, it has green fruit and a pale pinkish bud, it however is actually an interspecific hybrid of M. velutina and M. flaviflora, however it is still treated as a valid species because it acts like a species, has wild populations and all that stuff (perfectly capable of true to type sexual reproduction).

Most others are hybrids of unknown origin, but they are not wild species any many are sterile due to their hybrid nature. The only other common ones that can confidently identified as a valid wild species are Musa laterita (known as ornata 'Bronze'), Musa gracilis (known as ornata 'Leyte White'), Musa siamensis ((not official) known as ornata 'Thai Gold'). There are also a few others but its hard to say exactly what they would be called in the nursery trade, as mentioned before everything is really mixed up but Musa rosea and Musa rosacea are most likely out there under the wrong name. There are also other species that are generally named correctly (such as velutina, mannii and rubinea(not official)) and there are yet others that are still not in cultivation.

Musa 'African Red' is the correct name since it is a hybrid of unknown origin, definetly not a wild species.

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