Banana List

Description

Height To:

Price

Ae Ae

Leaves are variegated, white and green, the plant produces large

18'

$100.00

 

Bunches of variegated fruit, very beautiful plant

 

 

Brazilian Lady Finger

Strong growing plant with very sweet fruit

25'

$25.00

Cardaba

Large fruit with a blue coloration good for cooking

12'

$20.00

Carolina King

Variety that we have plants available of but have not evaluated the

8'-10'

$15.00

 

fruit yet. Possibly another Cavendish variety

 

 

Cuban

Lady finger type of fruit

10'

$25.00

Cocos

Beautiful plant similar to bluefields but smaller

14'-16'

$20.00

Colorado blanco

Resembles Jamacian red with a yellow skinned fruit, ornamental

20'-25'

$25.00

Double banana

2 to 4 heads of sweat fruit resembling the cavendish in taste and

7'

$35.00

 

size. First generation may only send out one head

 

 

Dwarf Brazilian

Dwarf size of the earlier described Brazilian

12'

$25.00

Dwarf Chinese Cavendish

Beautiful plant that is very stout  and has wide leaves, the fruit is

7'

$15.00

 

exceptionally sweet. This is the most popular banana in the world

 

 

Dwarf Colorado Blanco

Dwarf size of the earlier described Colorado Blanco

10'

$35.00

Dwarf Orinoco

Hardy burro type, large angular fruit can be eaten fresh or cooked

7'

$20.00

Dwarf Jamaican Red

Very beautiful plant with red pseudostem and green leaves. Maroon

7'

$25.00

 

colored fruit with orange flesh and good flavor

 

 

Ebon Musak

Variety that when the fruit ripens only has a subtle color change

12'

$15.00

Eleele

Hawaiian variety with almost black sheathes, petioles, and midribs

25'

$30.00

 

large bunches of orange fleshed cooking bananas

 

 

Enano Gigante

Dwarf cavendish cultivars with large bunches of delicious fruit

10'

$20.00

French Horn

This plant produces fruit up to 1 ft. long and is primarily eaten

10'-12'

$25.00

 

cooked. It can be eaten raw when thoroughly ripe

 

 

Golden Aromatic

Strong pleasant fragrance. Medium sized bunches, large fruit

12'

$25.00

 

sweet and creamy

 

 

Gold Finger

A hardy new commercial variety that is a prolific grower

7'-10'

$20.00

Golden pillow

Plump thin skinned and very sweet fruit. The plant is green with red

10'-12'

$25.00

 

at junction of leaf ands pseudostem

 

 

Grand Nain

Produces large stocks of 100-150 pounds of bananas. A big

5'-7'

$25.00

 

commercial variety in Central America,  very stout and attractive

 

 

Green Ae Ae

A beautiful banana plant with wide leaves, similar to Popoulo

20'

$25.00

Green Red

This is the king of banana plants, produces med bunches of brilliant

24'-28'

$35.00

 

red and gold on ripening with aromatic cream colored pulp

 

 

Haa Haa

This is a dwarf stout plant with a yellow skin and orange flesh

7'

$25.00

Hua Moa

A Hawaiian variety which produces small bunches of plump roundish

18'

$20.00

 

fruit which may be eaten fresh or cooked

 

 

Ice Cream

Plant has a blue green color under the leaves and a bluish green

20'

$15.00

 

fruit. Bananas are delicious fresh or cooked

 

 

Jamaican Red

A tall version of the dwarf with the same characteristics

20'

$25.00

Kaualau

Hawaiian cooking banana with large bunches of excellent quality

16'

$25.00

 

fruit

 

 

Kru

From New Guinea, this plant looks similar to the Jamaican Red but

12'

$25.00

 

produces faster and might be little more cold hardy. Reddish

 

 

 

colored skin and an orange flesh

 

 

Lady Finger Nev Poovan

A slender plant that produces medium bunches of short yellow

20'-25'

$25.00

 

skinned bananas with a sweet white flesh

 

 

Mai Maoli

A beautiful Hawaiian variety that produces heavy bunches of large

18'-22'

$35.00

 

bananas, can be cooked or eaten raw

 

 

Manaiula

A very attractive plant that is an excellent Hawaiian cooking banana

18'-20'

$35.00

 

Produces medium bunches of orange-fleshed fruit. Red coloration

 

 

 

Of new growth and leaf underside

 

 

Manzano

A vigorous growing plant that produces large bunches of fruit with

12'-14'

$15.00

 

A sweet apple like flavor

 

 

Monkey Finger

A tall plant that produces tasty long bananas. The racemes can get

20'

$35.00

 

To be six feet long and weight 70 to 80 pounds

 

 

Monthan

A vigorous growing plant that produces large bunches of fruit that

12'

$35.00

 

Can be cooked or eaten raw

 

 

Musella lasiocarpa

A small ornamental yellow flowering banana that appears to be very

4'

$30.00

Chinese yellow

Hardy and a vigorous grower

 

 

Mysore

A very attractive plant that has a reddish purple coloration on the

15'-18'

$25.00

 

Stem and leaf sheaths. The fruit is thin skinned and sweet

 

 

Musa hookerii

New to cultivation tinged with red and purple new leaves and leaf

14'

$15.00

sikkimensis

midribs. Should be hardy to cool conditions coming from Montane

 

 

forest up to 6000ft in the Himalayas of NE India. The fruits have a

 

 

sweetish pulp but is hard and contains a few large seeds.

 

 

Musa sumatrana

This is an ornamental plant that is very beautiful with green leaves

5'-7'

$20.00

 

splashed with red

 

 

Musa sumatrana x

Same as above but with wider leaves and a seedless fruit

7'

$35.00

Grand nain

 

 

 

Musa violacea

An ornamental flowering banana with thin stems and violet to purple

7'

$35.00

 

colored flower

 

 

Nino

One of the most highly esteemed bananas around the world for its

10'-12'

$25.00

 

exquisite taste and texture. The plant is very ornamental black

 

 

 

speckled on the trunk and leaf sheaths

 

 

Orinoco (buro)

Same as the dwarf, angular shaped fruit eaten fresh or cooked

12'-16'

$15.00

Orito

Fruit is similar to Nino but the plant is larger

20'

$25.00

Philippine Lakatan

Another Cavendish relation

14'

$15.00

Pisang raja

A large plant that produces a delicious sweet orange fleshed fruit

20'

$25.00

Popolou

A Hawaiian variety that produces plump individual fruit with a

14'

$30.00

 

salmon pink flesh and an apple like flavor

 

 

Praying hands

An interesting looking plant that clumps together, a real conversation

14'

$30.00

 

piece. The fruit is sweet when fully ripe

 

 

Raja puri

A tough and cold hardy plant from India that produces medium

7'-8'

$20.00

 

size sweet bananas

 

 

Red iholena

Red and ivory coloring in the trunk and reddish purple undersides

25'

$35.00

 

on the leaves makes this a very beautiful plant. The fruit is delicious

 

 

and has a pink flesh. Hawaiian variety

 

 

Rust

Ornamental plant with stems and an orange to rust color. Good

4'-5'

$35.00

 

grower and flowers

 

 

Super Dwarf Cavendish

Very unusual plant in the fact that it only reaches a maximum height

3'-4'

$10.00

 

of 3'-4'. We have not had this fruit yet but we are told that it produces

 

 

a small sweet fruit. This plant would make a great border or ground

 

 

cover

 

 

Tuu Ghia

From Viet Nam. This variety grows and produces fruit well. The fruit

14'-16'

$35.00

 

is sweet and good cooked also

 

 

Ty Ty Gold

Another possible dwarf Cavendish type with yellow to gold coloration

8'

$15.00

 

on the stem that is distinguishable. The fruit has been untried by us

 

Valery

Cavendish variety that has a very good flavor. Hardy grower

10'

$15.00

White Iholena

Similar to the red Iholena. Primarily a green plant with a pink hue

 

 

 

coloration on the underside of the leaves

10'-12'

$35.00

Williams

Delicious sweet fruit that can produce heads up to 150lb. A strong

8'-10'

$15.00

 

grower.

 

 

Zanmoreno

Small plant similar to the Dwarf Chinese. Excellent fruit quality

5'-6'

$35.00

1000 Finger 

Unusual plant that produces hundreds of tiny sweet fruit. The long

12'-14'

$45.00

 

raceme almost reaches the ground