Does anyone know if Dwarf Banana Musa acuminata 'High Color Mini' needs a "friend" or is it self-fertile, to set fruit?
Dwarf Banana Musa acuminata 'High Color Mini' self-fertile?
On Bananas the female flowers come out on a stalk first, then the male flowers follow. For Musa acuminata to set seed, you will probably need several stalks blooming at the same time. So that male and female flowers are open at the same time.
Musa acuminata is the main plant for producing cultivars of Bananas. You could take the male pollen of another variety, cross it with the female flowers of your dwarf, and possibly produce a new variety.
hmhmhmh...that has me thinking
Thanks, Metrosideros! I have two other minis that I can try.
I have some 'pink' I believe and a couple others I will be starting from seed here real soon...so Keep us updated Rose so we know if it works for you!
If all you are looking for is fruit, then it is parthenocarpic (i hope i spelled it right) to get fruit almost exactly like standard store bought nanners only a little shorter. High color mini's are super-dwarved cavendish nanners. Good Luck!
If the plant is a cultivar used to produce edible fruit, it is not Musa acuminata, but is a sterile triploid hybrid.
Musa acuminata is a parent of all edible bananas, but itself produces fruit with buck-shot like seed that is not good for eating.
If the 'High Color Mini' is an edible cultivar, then it's proper name is Musa 'High Color Mini', and you won't need to cross pollen from another plant as you aren't producing seed. (The proper name for the Cavendish or Chinese banana is Musa 'Cavendish'.)
Crossing plants of Musa acuminata is only necessary when producing seed.
Edible bananas produce sterile fruit, and are propagated by division.
Below is Musa acuminata syn. M. sumatrana, M. zebrina.
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