Musa Dwarf Cavendish

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Contents 1 Cultivar Name 1.1 Synonyms 2 Pictures 3 Description 3.1 Origin 3.2 Usage 4 Flowering 5 Cultivation 5.1 Known Afflictions 6 Research Notes 6.1 Members Growing This Banana 7 External

Cultivar Name

Musa acuminata 'cavendishii'

Synonyms

Klue Hom Kom

Dwarf Chinese

Pisang serendah

Governor

Enano

Johnson

Pictures

(credit taylor_loves_bananas)

(credit the flying dutchman)

Description

The most popular greenhouse banana, will bear bunches with up to 90 bananas, each slightly shorter than the 'grocery store' varieties. It will grow to about 8 feet(10 feet outdoors in South Florida) and has a solid heavy trunk. Juvenile leaves will have some reddish-purple markings but later leaves will be all green. This Musa is a fast grower with great appeal to the mass market. It has a fair cold tolerance It is also suited for indoors and is a good container specimen wich is also decorative

• Genetic Group -

AAA

Origin

China

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Usage

Desert banana, excellent fruit

Flowering

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Cultivation

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8-10 feet

• Survival Zone -

8-9

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• Cold Hardiness - my dwarfen cavendish ( more hardy types, grand nain ) survived -3 C with little leaf edge damage and -5 C in dry ground with greater leaf damage however persisting cold is really trouble and wil cut the plant to the ground. Other 3 plants died at -5 and another has only stem damage, hardening off extends the frost resistence of the stem defenitely. It seems a unreliable plant for colder we climates. The normal cavandish types wil die if temperatures are around 8 C'. 3/01/08 i tried some super dwarfs and less hardy cultivars that defoliated at 3 C', i protected the stem with jute, burlap leaves and straw but it still died however the super dwarf are ideal for a heated enclosures if spayed with fungicide Lodewijkp, the Netherlands

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• Sun - full sun, partial sun, shade, suitable for indoors

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Known Afflictions

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Research Notes

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Members Growing This Banana

External

• Links

  (Links to other useful pages on the web that mention this banana. Example: International Banana Society)

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