Re: There are two forms of Musa basjoo?
For the purpose of keeping taxonomy straight and to make clear the origins of different varieties of plants, it is important to distinguish between the varieties which are born out of tissue culture off-types, of which many exist, and naturally occurring varieties of a species. Off-types appear relatively frequently in the TC process and there tons of different forms of a plant that can come out of it and there are many out there. Naturally occurring varieties are very different, and are usually the result of the diversification of a species in an area, in which smaller populations have been separated by natural barriers and do not interbreed.
For naming, an example of each would be something like...
Musa basjoo 'Upham Giant' for a domestic off-type, and Musa campestris var. sarawakensis for a true naturally occurring variety.
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