Carolina Gardening: Tropical Project, 1 by keonikale

keonikale wrote:
I have another question also while we're on the topic of Bananas. I don't know what made me notice this now, versus never before, but I noticed some of my basjoo have very different colors. So like last year when I discovered one of my "basjoo" was actually a Dwarf Cavendish, I'm sorta starting to wonder if I really have all basjoo now. The very lime green one (on the far left) is the first banana I put in the ground last year. I had been fairly confident it was a basjoo - but it looks lighter green than the others. It's grown slower than I expected in the second year and I'm starting to wonder if it's something else. The one in the middle is a supposed basjoo; I purchased it from Lowe's this spring. And the one to the far right is a basjoo I purchased online last fall. The two of them (along with the other dozen or so in the back) all look the same.Both the middle and far right basjoo are HUGE compared to the lime green colored one. So are they all basjoo and is the lime green one something else? Or am I imagining things?

The image I've uploaded may not provide detail on the leaves/stem, so here's a very large 3000px version with a lot of detail:
http://www.hawaii-guide.com/images/dg_plants/Basjoo.jpg

This message was edited Aug 17, 2008 4:11 PM