mrbungalow

My humble opinion: The genus musa is a plant taxonomists' worst nightmare, depending on how you look at it. To be qualified to sell Musa-seeds, it would require special interest and competence in the individual offering the seeds. I don't think names such as "Musa Ensete" or "Super cold hardy snow-banana, Musa Glauca" is good enough.

I have seen so many examples of misnaming seeds and plants on internet stores (sometimes on purpose such as "ae-ae"), and don't even get me started on e-bay.

The general culture on online seed-stores seems to be "Give the seeds a name first, ask what it really is later". The whole story with "trachycarpus takil" is a perfect example of this. Now it turns out this palm sold as "takil" is really something completely different. True takil probably doesn't even exist in cultivation yet, except for a very few cases. Sadly, many vendors are still selling "4 year old Trachycarpus takil".

Still, there are quite a few online stores that are very good sources, and show genuine interest in both botany and customers.

But again, I urge anyone to atleast check around.

JPFLOORS; When seeds are offered for landraces such as Dwarf Cavendish, then it's certainly 100% bulls**t. I don't think it's allways done on purpose, but is because of a misunderstanding.
Most likely, the banana you see offered for sale is "Musa acuminata", wich is a wild, seeded and very variable banana. This is in no way the same as "Dwarf Cavendish".

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