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 over 100 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 which is also decorative.

• Genetic Group -

AAA

Origin

China

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Usage

Desert banana, excellent fruit

Flowering

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Cultivation

• Mature Height -

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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