Banana Plant Seeds
Important Note: The seeds on this page will benefit
greatly from using the CAPE Smoke Seed
Germination Primer that we use in our own greenhouses. We
find we receive significantly better germination results when we
use this primer on Musa seeds.
NB68 Royal Purple Banana Musa spp.
Grows to 6 feet tall, but does great in a patio pot as well.. This ornamental banana produces the most beautiful purple flower bracts and small fruits that are laden with pea sised seeds. It can be grown in full sun or in half shade. Clumping habit. Very easy to care for.
RHM151 Burmese Blue Banana Musa itinerans
This is a good cooking banana as well as a beautiful ornamental plant, best suited for zones 9-10 outside, or patio tubs in cooler zones. An exquisite new species of musa from a origin of Burma, it's bananas are shiny 6" to 8" in length with a pinkish-purple haze giving them the appearance of iridescent blue. A short growing spp. 8' to 10' with a beautiful golden yellow trunk. 14 to 16 bananas per hand, leaves are lightly pleated with light burgundy purple on the undersides and darker throughout it's midribs when leaves are young. It is used medicinally and for food in many cultural tribes of Indonesia. Heavily seeded. Very rare and one of a kind!
RHM152 Manila Hemp Banana Musa textilis
Musa textilis is a moderately large banana, apparently originally native to the Philippines but widely cultivated elsewhere for its quality fibers (hence the name manila hemp), among other places in Borneo. The Bornean plants seem somewhat different though forming a very colorful inflorescence bud. A very easy to grow and highly ornamental banana for the tropics.
Seed Packet #Z2116
Yunnan Banana Musa sp. "Yunnan"
A beautiful, high altitude banana from China's Yunnan Province that has proven to be a very interesting cold tolerant species that will thrive under similar conditions as the legendary Musa basjoo and M. sikkimensis, even though not quite as hardy. It is a slender- stemmed, extremely fast growing plant with large leaves supported by waxy white leaf stalks. A very interesting cold hardy species that would
probably thrive under the same conditions as the legendary Musa
basjoo and M. sikkimensis. Easily grown in zone 6 if mulched
heavy, it should be tried in zone 5 more to determine it's
limits.
50 seeds bulk pack. Price per pack: $25.95
2684 Monkey Fingers Banana Musa acuminata ssp.
microcarpa
Indonesian origin. Grows to 20' and is famous with serious
collectors because of the uniqueness of its lengthy 6' fruiting
stalk which may have hundreds of small, thin finger-like
bananas which may weigh 80 lb. The tart tasting fruits are not
grown for consumption as much as for the novelty of the tree.
Price per pack: $3.95
IM109 Bornean Hairy Banana Musa hirta
A little-known banana only about 8 ft. tall that forms attractive clumps. The upright, hairy-stalked inflorescence produces a pointed bud with glossy, purplish-pink bracts, followed by small, squat, densely golden-hairy fruits. The fruits, as in only very few other banana species, dehisce when they are fully mature, meaning that the peel splits by itself and reveals the fruit pulp inside. Unlike most bananas, it is less starchy and more juicy. The ripe fruit tastes like a mix between a kiwi and a banana and is readily consumed, seeds and all, by the Iban people. Unripe fruits are peeled and eaten with salt. The bud is relished as a vegetable, cooked and seasoned with salt and spices.
Price per pack: $3.95
A note from one of our customers:
Seed Packet #Z1705
Ornamental Christmas Banana Musa sumatrana
A very striking dwarf banana that reaches a mature height of
only 1,5 to 2m (5 to 7ft) with narrow leaves that are dark red
below and striped with red and green above. Subtropical to
tropical. Ideal houseplant.
2696 Red Flash Musa sikkimensis Red Flash
A beautiful ornamental banana with deep red splashes across the
top of leaves, underside of young leaves are often deep maroon.
You definitely need this one in your collection, adds a
different touch of tropical color. Price per pack: $5.95
Seed Packet # 2742
Cheeseman's Banana Musa cheesmani
A nice addition to the ornamental banana line. A vigorous,
large, wild banana from Northeastern India. The pseudostems are
densely clustering, dark reddish brown, with a waxy white bloom
towards the leaf stalk. The leaf is bright green above with a
pale midrib and grayish below with a conspicuous purple brown
midrib.
Price per pack: $2.95
Seed Packet # Z1810
Seed Name: Edible Ornamental Banana Musa sapientum
An unusual type of ornamental banana that produces large,
edible bananas, but the fruit is full of large black seeds and
is not raised commercially for this reason. Can be raised in
large tubs inside or zone 9 and higher outside. Inside, it
rarely grows over 6 ft. tall, but can reach 10 ft. or more
outside.
Price per pack: $4.95
Seed Packet #Z2450
Darjeeling Banana Musa sikkimensis (= M. hookeri)
Wow! A rare and little known large banana species, new to
cultivation, that sports a massive pseudo-trunk to 4,5m (14ft)
tall and 45cm (18in.) in diameter., tinged with red, and purple
new leaves and leaf-midribs. A percentage of plants even
exhibits beautifully dark red mottled leaves. The Darjeeling
Banana is very hardy to cold (i.e. in the sense of Musa basjoo)
coming, as it does, from mountain forests up to 2000m (6000ft)
in the Himalayas of NE-India. First trials outdoors in the US,
Britain, Germany and Switzerland have shown an excellent
resistance to cold and frost. Like all bananas, it is extremely
fast growing, given rich soil and an abundance of water. The
fruits have a sweetish pulp but are hard and contain a few
large seeds. An absolute novelty that shows great promise as an
ornamental for the temperate as well as the cooler tropical
garden. We think this plant that has more potential than any
other cold tolerant Musa in cultivation at the moment.
Seed Packet #Z2093
Cold Hardy Chinese Dwarf Banana Musella lasiocarpa
Musella lasiocarpa is an exciting banana relative that comes
from high altitudes (to frosty 2800m / 9200ft!) in the Yunnan
province in China. The maximum height of the plant is only
about 1.5m / 5ft, half of which is a very stout, conical trunk,
topped by a crown of handsome, slightly glaucous, broad leaves.
From early age, the rhizome produces many suckers. The
"flower", which is big and bright yellow, appears in its second
year, and grows upright at the top of the trunk. As the
inflorescence grows in size, tiny 'bananas' begin to appear
under each bract which curls back to reveal the fruits.
Unfortunately inedible, the 2" long bananas each contain dozens
of small, shiny jet black seeds. The seed requires cool
stratification (abt. 5°C) but then germinates easily, and
subsequent seedling growth is as you might expect, very fast.
Musella appreciates heavy watering and feeding and a place in
full sun. It will flourish in all climates from cool tropical
down to temperate, where it will be found to be root hardy,
enduring even cold winters with its underground rhizome, just
like the well known "Hardy Banana", Musa basjoo. It also makes
a perfect conservatory plant which will be a true conversation
piece that certainly will not outgrow its location.
Seed Packet # Z2306
Seed Name: Velvet Banana Musa velutina
Good container type of banana with dark green leaf blades to 3
ft. Produces erect spikes of white flowers, followed by softly
hairy, pink fruit. Good for zone 8-10 and higher outside.
Price per pack: $4.95
Seed Packet # Z2007
Seed Name: Balbisiana Banana Musa balbisiana
Obscure but exciting 'new' Banana from North-east India, the
Musa balbisiana is perhaps one of the progenitors of the
commercial banana. It grows at some altitude so may tolerate
cool conditions and a little frost, but its main characteristic
is its huge flower. As with others in the genus, rich soil is
required for maximum growth together with plenty of fertilizer
and an adequate supply of water. Given these and some summer
warmth, it is almost dangerously fast growing!
Seed Packet #Z2115
Giant Nepal Banana Ensete glaucum
This exciting but little-known banana relative is also known as
Musa nepalensis and Ensete giganteum, hinting at the plants
giant size. It grows in China (Yunnan 800-1100m a.s.l.), Nepal,
India, Burma, Thailand and possibly also in Tibet, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. It has a thick, waxy and blue,
solitary trunk, huge bluish leaves up to 10ft/3m long, and a
huge nodding banana-producing inflorescence. It is extremely
fast growing and so requires a good supply of fertilizer and
water and is best planted in rich soil. In cold climates it
would make an astonishing bedding plant during the Summer.
Seed Packet #2204
Giant Yunnan Banana Musa itinerans (Gigantea)
A very large and extremely fast growing wild banana from the
mountain forests of southern Yunnan, China. Its reddish
pseudostems can reach a diameter of more than 50 cm (20 in.)
and a height of 12 m (40 ft.). The purplish fruits are popular
with monkeys. Musa itinerans displays good root hardiness and
will thrive under the same conditions as the legendary Musa
basjoo and M. sikkimensis.
Seed Packet #2208
Blood Banana Musa zebrina
This ornamental banana grows to 4' and is known by its colorful
leaves - green with mottling of wine color on top while the
underside is maroon. Grown in filtered sunlight. Seeds are the
size of a small pea.
New! Jim's Plant Growth Stimulator for Banana.
Jim has developed this product through years of testing on his farms. This natural, environmentally safe solution will produce amazing results, producing vigorous plants and larger fruits. We highly recommend you do you own trial test ( i.e. spray one plant with solution, next to a plant not sprayed with solution over the length of a growing season ) to fully appreciate how effective this product is.
This is a two part water soluble product that should be mixed 14.75cc of each part ( we provide measuring spoon with solution ) to one gallon of water and sprayed onto the foliage of the banana plants. It contains Food Grade H202, ( produced by nature ) Gibberellic Acid ( a natural plant growth hormone ), B1 and other plant vitamins, plant hormones, ( made from natural sources ) micronutrients including Boron (B), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Molybdenum (Mo), Sulfur (S) and Zinc (Zn) plus a natural detergent based "sticker" that makes the product stick to the leaves until absorbed by the plant.
This mix will make 16 gallons of solution.
JPAG06 Plant Growth Stimulator for Banana Plants $14.95
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