Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Ensete ventricosum (Red Banana) showing signs of dis-ease, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
This looks similar to what I have been seeing in the plants. Their is not chewing on the leaves and not signs of virus or lack of food or neglect to the plant. In some cases the plant will recover and grow out of it, while some will not. Their is no other reason I can think of other than a mutation induced by TC. Most labs will keep a mother block that they will return to after to many divisions have been taken. This helps prevent such mutations. This should not prevent you from buying or growing TCed plants. The fact is if they were seed grown you would probably see a lot more variability than what is in TC. It would be interesting to see how far the spectrum could go if they did keep producing from old stock with out going back to the original starts.
Their are a lot of these mutations found in TC on the market today and I am sure their will be a ton more in the future. This is one of the very positive things of the TC mutations.

Here is a photo of a mutation I found. This is a Musa basjoo found out of TCed plants I grew. If you notice some of the leaf sections are missing on this plant as well.