What kinds of plantains do you have? What are the characteristics of red banana / purple banana / Jinlian plantain in Diyong? what are the differences between flowers?

The planting method of plantain, some people use seeds to grow, do you know how to grow plantain seeds? What kinds of plantains do you know? Next, let's take a look at several varieties of plantains.

(1.) Red banana (Musa coccinea): also known as plantain, ornamental plantain. It originated in Vietnam. The height of the plant is 1.5 to 2 meters and the leaves are slender and light green. Flowering the Summer Solstice autumn, bright red flowers, bract tip yellowish, very beautiful. In addition to garden planting and pot planting, because of the long flowering stem, long flowering period and bright color of bracts, it is a first-class flower material for cut flowers and flower arrangement.

(2.) Purple banana (Musa velutina): native to northern India. The name velutina comes from the velvety villi of the fruit room. The plant is short, up to 1 to 1.5 meters. The bud is purplish red and the male flower is orange. Fruit refers to the mature surface has fine hair, pericarp is purplish red, fruit-shaped short fat lovely. The fruit refers to the natural cracking after maturity, revealing the snow-white flesh and containing the black seeds. In addition to being planted in the courtyard, it is suitable to be used as a potted plant for viewing flowers and fruits.

(3) Diyong Golden Lotus (Musa lasiocarpa / Golden lotus): also known as thousand-petal lotus. Originated in Yunnan, 2500 meters above sea level, cold-resistant. Plants short (ca. 1 m), tufted. The pseudostem consists of overlapping leaf sheaths, and the leaves are green in the shape of plantains. Bracts golden yellow, shaped like petals, gradually unfold from bottom to top and remain unwithered for a long time, just like a blooming lotus flower with a florescence of up to 250 days. It is a rare variety of ornamental flowers.

(4) Banana (Musa acuminata spp zebrina / Bloodieaf / Musa sumatra): native to Indonesia. The plant is tall and slender, similar to edible banana in shape, up to 3 meters high. It is characterized by large brown spots on the leaves and bronzed back. In addition to courtyard planting, potted plants use dwarfing agents to control plant height, which can make leaves wider and darker spots, so it is a popular foliage potted plant.

(5) Thousand-layer banana (Musa chiliocarpa / Pisang seribu / Thousand Finger): native to Malaysia. The plant is tall and looks like an edible banana, which can reach more than 2 to 3 meters. Its characteristic is that the blooming consequence string continues to grow until it is close to the ground. Its fruit refers to short and stout, and the fruit handle is closely arranged, so it is called thousand-layer banana.