Re: Musa itinerans var. itinerans is very cold-hardy!!
I had a different experience with my seed grown Musa sp. nov "giant flowering banana" from nature products. I had two 7 gallon plants in a very cold greenhouse, along with 5 gallon Musa burmese blue, and 7-10 gallon Musa initerans(agristarts-yunnansis), and 10 gallon Musa cheesmanii. The only one that came back was the agri-starts initerans(yunnanisis), and the cheesmanii came back weakly. I thought the burmese blue might come back, because the corm was fairly solid, but it didn't. The two corms that were complete mush was the Musa sp Nov, and I wrote them off as not cold hardy.
Mine were seed grown(although large), and no long runners yet, and Frank's were pups off a larger plant that had runners, so that may explain the differences in hardiness.
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