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Musa basjoo
Also called Japanese Fibre Banana, Hardy Banana
Musa basjoo is a fast-growing, herbaceous perennial banana from southern China that is unusually cold-hardy for a banana, dying back to the ground in winter and regrowing from the base. It is grown mainly for its large tropical leaves, and it is the most cold-tolerant species in the genus.
Musa basjoo, known variously as Japanese banana, Japanese fiber banana or hardy banana, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the banana family Musaceae. It was previously thought to have originated in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, from where it was first described in cultivation, but is now known to have originated in the subtropical southern Chinese province of Sichuan. Its specific name is derived from its Japanese common name, bashō (芭蕉).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Musa basjoo by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
