Is It SAFE To Eat These Bananas?

LSP, They look like Cavendish, maybe the one from your area called 1780 .very good eating..Give em a try ..if they are ornamental they will not hurt you they will just be kind of dry,seedy and not very tasty : )

John

Thanks BRUGMANIA! I have never seen, "DON'T EAT THESE BANANAS OR YOU WILL DIE!!!" warnings, so I supposed that 'non-edible' bananas were just not very tasty, as you have explained, instead of being toxic.

I recently received a Dwarf Cavendish Banana plant and a Cardaba Plantain that I ordered from Stokes. It will be interesting to see if the plant that I KNOW to be a Cavendish resembles the bananas now growing.

LAURAM -- Hello neighbor! Those banana trees DO grow fast, don't they? My clump of banana trees started as two sickly-looking stick-like stalks that I planted the previous Summer. By Spring of the next year, they had grown taller than the eaves of the house. The following Summer, I had bananas! Even after the trees went through a freeze which had turned all the leaves brown.

I'll go look and see if there is a nice-sized banana 'pup' suitable for mailing to you.

I am still working on updating my Gardening pages, but this is the page where I have my bananas listed:

http://members.aol.com/Jyex2/garden_whats_planted_fruit.htm

Send me an e-mail with 'BANANAS' in the subject line (so I'll know it is from you) with your mailing address.

Here is a picture of the original planting.

LSP,What a fun web page you have : ) That poor soil where you planted them will become very rich in a few years..The old mother plants pseudobulbs will compost underground and the soil just keeps getting better and better.......with trunk wrapping in the winter (when I lived in zone 9a) I could grow just about any of them ! be careful you could wind up with a wonderful jungle......

John