Hi,
good news from Brazil!!! Yesterday I found by Google
http://www.magistra.ufrb.edu.br/publ...7%20-%2010.pdf I found even Musa basjoo, itinerans, sikkimensis and balbisiana on this paper!
There is an address. I wrote immediately one letter to there to ask for pups, seeds and sources from Musa basjoo and other hardy bananas in Brazil. I think, they will grow them for me by micropropagation. Also I asked for Ice Cream, Thousand Fingers, African Rhinohorn, Saba and Praying Hands. I also need one Brazilian variety which tastes like Ice Cream and want to deliver harvests to the new hotel in Lucianópolis and gourmet restaurants in Brazil in the future. I also asked for the larger sources of bananas in Brazil, with much larger sortiments of musas than Frutas Raras. So I will compensate the prohibition of import for bananas to Brazil and get the importantest banana species for my breeding hardy fruit banana project with Musa basjoo.
Accidentaly the Agricultural Ministery of Sao Paulo gave me a tip about the very large genetic bank for bananas in Brazil in the state Bahia. The same address!!! I have already wrote a letter there, I told about this the lady of the Agriculture Ministery and said her much thanks!
Best wishes
Joachim