ID help: red banana, upright flower

TerdalFarm · 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:

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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?

TerdalFarm · 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.

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

Musa velutina? Maybe just stunted growth and growing in rocks? ?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:17 pm

Musa velutina? Maybe just stunted growth and growing in rocks? ?

TerdalFarm · 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.