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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    nor can't I



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    if you click on the non image what comes up says webkit fake image  (or similar), we may not be missing much



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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     Sorry guys, I'm new to this site!  We bought it at a local garden centre thinking it was a banana plant of some sort. This is the first time it has done this in 3 years.  

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Having looked at some google images I think it as a banana plant. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • SwissSueSwissSue Posts: 1,447

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    Here it is right way up. The leaf looks like a banana, but the flower certainly is strange!

     

  • addictaddict Posts: 659

    Wow that is amazing. image Whatever it is it loves the hot summer.

  • addictaddict Posts: 659

    This is a banana flower. Looks pretty similiar 

    http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/banana-tree-flower-1175752.jpg

     Guess you're gonna get bananas! Ive grown them for years and never had one image

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    I've just found this image online. Looks the same as mine and is called a Hua Plee banana plant. Mystery solved! Lets just hope the nice weather continues long enough to give fruit.

     

  • addictaddict Posts: 659

    Not a hardy one then Phil. Do you have somewhere to overwinter it?

  • We'll bring it into the conservatory when it cools down as we have done previously. I have just read up on the plant. Apparently the flowers are sterile and won't produce fruit. Other banana plants have both male and female flowers and do produce fruit. oh well never mind. When in full leaf it's a great structural plant. We love it. Best tenner we ever spent.

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