Bananaman88

Personally, I think we should all call it dasycarpa. If we refuse to then it really won't ever catch on. That's how incorrect names persist. When I first started growing and collecting bananas back in about 2001, my very first banana was Musa laterita, but everyone called it M. ornata. Once I learned it was really laterita, I made the change, and made sure I always called it that here in any threads I posted about it. I feel doing so helps to educate everyone and really, once you start calling it by it's real name, it only takes a few times before you start getting comfortable with it. I'm with Bigdog-maybe I'm a plant geek, but have a degree in horticulture and having learned botanical nomenclature it college, I think it's the right thing to do as well.