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 and wrapped in straw, but it 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
Early fall photo by Susan Lee
Straw wrapping photo by Kumi Sutcliffe