ID help: red banana, upright flower

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ID help: red banana, upright flower

Post by TerdalFarm » Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:40 pm

I was hiking this afternoon in a forest East of the Arrenal Volcano in Costa Rica. I saw the odd (to me) red banana with an upright flower:

[url=http://postimg.org/image/x7jtf8y6z/][img]http://s1.postimg.org/x7jtf8y6z/red_banana.jpg[/img][/url]

While bananas are grown commercially here, this is not one of them, and of course they are not native. Upslope was a fancy resort. I walked through their lushly landscaped grounds but did not see anything like this, Still, I assume a seed must have washed down-slope from the resort and grew where I saw it.

So, any ideas as to what it is?



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Post by TerdalFarm » Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:41 pm

Dang postimage!!

Here is the link to it on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

I'll get it on Flickr when I have a faster connection.

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Post by seedscanada » Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:15 pm

Musa velutina? Maybe just stunted growth and growing in rocks? ?
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Post by seedscanada » Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:17 pm

Musa velutina? Maybe just stunted growth and growing in rocks? ?
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Post by TerdalFarm » Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:38 pm

Thanks! That's it. Stunted as growing under dense canopy. Yes, rocky soil, too, with slope.

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