Musa tropicana

Today my missus (yes the same person who told me to stop buying plants) bought me 3 bananas plants from the local market at £1 each
called musa tropicana .
Are they : red tiger , cavendish or what?

 

Lucky you sal my missus buys me paint and wallpaper
Just googled it and it looks like a dwarf cavendish musa, but hey don't take my word for it!

 

Tried to check, but I thought that your leaves are not stipey enough to be a
Cavendish. You sure it's a musa, it looks like a Diffenbachia, (which is poisonous)But like Mowgley, I am no expert.

 

Deftnely not a Diffenbachia, It`s a banana musa ...not sure if it`s a cavendish or a super dwarf cavendish , ....they are hard to keep alive when young ....but managed ones.

 

If they are def banana's, would you use the leaves to cook with?

 

Liliana , cavendish can actually produce edible banana but I doubt , I`ve made food parcel out of musa bajoo , more resisten . but didn`t really like the flavour .

 

I think the leaves would be further apart (more pseudo stem in between) if Red Tiger. Red Tiger would have leaves with different proportions - longer/thiner - so I reckon Cavendish (in which case needs some warmth over Winter, I think??)

 

They look the same as the one I have that I bought from Lidl earlier this year..



This photo was taken when I bought it; it looks considerably better than this now

 

Kristen i had a super dwarf , but lost last year , because I`ve tryed to overwinter in the greenhouse , but was alive untill February when we had the snow and I was away.


and this is the cavendish , managed 3 years and lost it just becasue i dared too much

 

The snow? Not to mention 11th February and the -16C night c-c-c-cold brrrr!

 

Yes Kristen that one , I was in Thailand at time it was 36c over there , missed all the good fun in UK.

 

SHOW OFF!

 

Its a cavendish, not at all hardy, so will need to be inside over winter.

 

You mean I got something right ??