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Gabe15 · 08-21-2005, 09:24 AM

Tim,
I have seen many 'Bordelon' plants this year and have seen them in fruit. They are clearly not edible and look to me like Musa acuminata subsp. zebrina x ornata (more then likely one of those "ornata" hybrids you could probly assume). However, they do resemble fairly closely some pure subsp. zebrina, but I think some of the colors are too bright and the plants just slender enough to suspect hybridization. This one has been on my list to get for awhile now.

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