Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Interesting banana find, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
This photo reminds me of a friend that I have not talked to in sometime. He would find plants with slight variegations and he would cut any non variegated sections away and only stimulated the variegated areas. I first thought much of the plants were lost causes but to my suprize he was able to get very nice and some well known variegated plants from doing this. It seemed to take a lot of patients and knowning what to cut and what not. As it may seem your first plant had a fairly nice variegated leaf but this new sucker may have much more to offer. I have also heard of a story of an amazing banana one was found years ago it was a highly variegated blood banana with white variegations. The way it was described was much like a Ae Ae but the red sections would show up as different tons of pink. The plant died when trying to Tissue culture the only plant. I am wondering if you may be getting some odd colors in the red blotched section of your leaves. Yellow and red should make orange but this may not always be the case. I threw in a photo of a variegated Colocasia. It has shown to produce around 5 to 7 different colors but it still is not extremely stable.

Keep up the good work.