I looked at Strelezia (leaf shape and texture seemed different to me) and Ravenala (which is fan-shaped as a structure, not clumped; I can't tell if yours is one of the other; here's one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/236... ) and of course the banana...A plant I found (in my very short research) that looks like yours, i.e. is perhaps clumped (has runners or shoots), is upright with extended petiole, and has banana-like leaves was Musa textilis. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:... But musa has about 70 species. As I said, a photo series showing more of the plant would make identification easier. Cheers
Let me add my two-bits too. Check out Ravenala madagascariensis, commonly known as traveller's tree or traveller's palm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenala
Could this be the White Bird of Paradise (Strelezia nicolai). It can grow up to 20 feet and has clusters of 'banana-like' leaves on woody stems. It has large white blooms - a larger version of the orange Bird of Paradise (Strelezia regina), I had one for several years but, sadly, it never bloomed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelitzia...
No this is not a Banana Plant as I have had it for 35 Years and still know one has identified it it grows out side my house in the garden as i got it for my wedding gift and is has not been an ornamental plant or plantation or even a botanical but it may have a small chance of Musa????
Can't really see much of the plant in the photo... Where and how was it growing? Was it an ornamental plant? In a botanical garden? Or a plantation crop? Maybe Musa textilis?
7 Comments
I looked at Strelezia (leaf shape and texture seemed different to me) and Ravenala (which is fan-shaped as a structure, not clumped; I can't tell if yours is one of the other; here's one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/236... ) and of course the banana...A plant I found (in my very short research) that looks like yours, i.e. is perhaps clumped (has runners or shoots), is upright with extended petiole, and has banana-like leaves was Musa textilis. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:... But musa has about 70 species. As I said, a photo series showing more of the plant would make identification easier. Cheers
Let me add my two-bits too. Check out Ravenala madagascariensis, commonly known as traveller's tree or traveller's palm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenala
Oh my goodness i have never new there where bid of paradises like this thanks you i will kindly take note of that for journalism!
Could this be the White Bird of Paradise (Strelezia nicolai). It can grow up to 20 feet and has clusters of 'banana-like' leaves on woody stems. It has large white blooms - a larger version of the orange Bird of Paradise (Strelezia regina), I had one for several years but, sadly, it never bloomed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelitzia...
No this is not a Banana Plant as I have had it for 35 Years and still know one has identified it it grows out side my house in the garden as i got it for my wedding gift and is has not been an ornamental plant or plantation or even a botanical but it may have a small chance of Musa????
Can't really see much of the plant in the photo... Where and how was it growing? Was it an ornamental plant? In a botanical garden? Or a plantation crop? Maybe Musa textilis?
Is it a banana tree?