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Musa Dwarf Orinoco
(Dessert Banana) |
Family: Musaceae
Light: Full sun
Height: Up to 15'
Blooms: Fragrant, white, in mid-summer
Fruits: Bunches, delicious, snow-white flesh
Foliage: Shiny,
smooth, silver-green, herbaceous
Soil: Well-drained
Water: Regular
Uses: Container, specimen, landscaping
Comments: Musa Dwarf Orinoco or Dessert Banana is a cold tolerant monocarpic banana plant.
Its vanilla ice cream-flavored fruits are eaten either fresh or cooked.
This dessert-type banana plant is cold tolerant. Add 2-3" mulch to plant
for moisture retention. Harvest fruit when they stop growing.
Cut down the stalk of almost ripe bananas and leave in cool dry place to
ripen. Cut tree down after harvesting to allow suckers to grow. In colder
areas, remove top part of plant, dig root and store till next planting
season.
USDA Hardiness Zones
: 8-10 |
