Bananas.org - View Single Post - Musa itinerans var. itinerans is very cold-hardy!!

bigdog · 04-03-2008, 12:35 PM

Erlend, you are mostly correct. It is not the one that was first introduced as Musa itinerans, now correctly identified as Musa yunnanensis. It isn't the 40 footer either, that one is var. xishuangbannaensis. I thought that I had var. xishuangbannaensis, until Markku's article on the itinerans complex came out recently. The one I have is var. itinerans, and was sold by natureproducts (Tian Zi) as Musa sp. Nov. Unless there are some sources that I am unaware of, I don't know of anyone that carries seeds of any of the Musa itinerans except for Musa itinerans 'India Form' (sunshineseeds). Perhaps we can all try and beg Tian Zi to start selling seeds again! I tried that, and they have since stopped answering my emails, lol.

It is possible that M. itinerans 'India Form' is a variant of var. itinerans (variant of a variety?), and could be just as cold-hardy.

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