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Originally Posted by tony palmer
I know what you mean Gabe, one thing that really bugs me about Musa’s is you hardly ever see collection data next to the name of new introductions from the wild, it would make things a lot easier if they did and eliminate a lot of the guess work.
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Another issue is that there are so many wild bananas out there, that there are new ones being discovered all the time, they just take awhile to be processed (fully researched, published, and assigned official names). So for someone trying to sell the seeds of new banana varieties, it can be very difficult to assign names to what is actually being sold because it may not be published. However, perhaps even more troublesome is when new names are assigned to plants which are already well known to science, but lack of research on the part of the collector/dealer gives rise to made up names for plants they may not be familiar with.