Re: banans

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] banans
• From: &* F* <d*@pacbell.net>
• Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 20:23:06 -0700
• References: <002d01c45fda$3f933de0$0e10660a@Justme>

Musa basjoo is good to -20.  That has to be close.  Of course the fruit
isn't edible though.

David Franzman
A Touch of the Tropics
www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:14 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] banans


> Any hardy to zone 5?.... like that would kind of retain their leaves so
> you don't have to start from scratch every spring?!?
>
> Donna
>
> >
> > There was discussion some time ago about the lack of diversity among
> > bananas, how growers had bred diversity out of them, and that they had
> > become an endangered species--subject to various diseases.
> >
> > To this I wish to add--from another list--that an Icelandic scientist
> > [go figure] on expedition in Micronesia has found and classified 14
> new
> > species of Musa.
> >
> > Island Jim
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