Musa basjoo
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Common name: Japanese banana, hardy banana
Musa basjoo is a winter-hardy banana used as an accent plant in our summer annual borders. It is cut back in autumn but comes back the following spring. It is an herbaceous perennial, not a tree. Bananas usually don't set fruit in Vancouver, but there are exceptions. This plant has been used in Asia for making textiles.
(The red-leafed banana in these borders is Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'.)
Flower photos by Lyn Anderson taken September 12, 2021