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Originally Posted by Gabe15
In theory they should not cross with Eumusa due to differing chromosome counts which usually prevents crossing (n=10 vs. n=11), but this didn't stop nature and there are hybrids. However, as mentioned before, very little is known about these bananas and close to no work has been done on them compared to Eumusa varieties. The only thing I have done with them is try to collect as much info as I can (I actually have a whole book on them, published in 1947 which was really the most work done on them it seems, but you can see current info is lacking), and I've tried to collect them in Hawai'i, I have 2 different ones from a botanic garden and one that I found in the forest near my school, I also have one in Colorado of a different known variety (but cannot distribute it). I only know the identity of one of the Hawaii ones and am working on determining what the others are.
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good luck it sounds like a totally fun and interesting exercise and I'm a bit envies to be honest i think the reason I'm so interested is that that Regen is known for its extremely hot reflective sunlight
and all those islands have periods of dry conditions I'm thinking that theres some possibilities to bring thees characteristics in to Banana x sports that could at least for those of us living in hot dry conditions offerer some better variates for us
i know you said that they don't cross but has any one really tried?