Musa holstii

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Musa >

holstii >

If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!

Read about Musa holstii in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Musa holstii, K. Schum. Whole plant 15-20 ft. high: lvs. 15-18 ft. long by 3 ft. wide: spike very large, drooping; upper bracts covering the male fls. 8-10 in. long, persistent; male fls. about ½ in. long, stalked; calyx l ¾ in. long, more or less deeply lobed, lobes linear, hooded at apex; free petal ½ - ¾ in. long, broadly elliptic, 3-5-lobed, the middle lobe oval and laterally toothed: fr. pyriform; about 4 in. long by 2 in. wide; seeds about ¾ in. diam. German E. Afr., in deep wooded ravines at 3,600-3,800 ft. altitude. — Intro. into cult. in 1905. Decorative. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Gallery

• 

  photo 1

• 

  photo 2

• 

  photo 3

References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

External links

• w:Musa holstii. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
• Musa holstii QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)