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What's new.....
December 2004
Seed of the following bananas made available by Toby Spanner:
Ensete perrieri
August 2004
Seed of the following bananas made available by Toby Spanner:
Ensete
sp. Kluay Pa
Musa cheesmani
Musa sikkimensis Red Tiger
Musa sp. Burmese Blue
July 2004
My formal response to Valmayor & Danh's paper on Musella spelndida is
published ... at last.
January 2004
Sequence of photographs added of Musella lasiocarpa
flowering in the UK.
Tim
Chapman's new forum for the discussion of the Musaceae is here.
A lot of fascinating new information will appear there before it appears here.
April 2003
In 2002 Valmayor & Danh published what they claim to be a new Musella, M. splendida, from Vietnam. Don't get too
excited, I think they have just re-discovered M. lasiocarpa.
Seed of Musa thomsonii is now available from Toby Spanner.
November 2002
Following work by Carol Wong and colleagues (Wong
et al 2002) the sections of Musa have been simplified. See Summary 1 for a very brief explanation of Wong's work and revised
arrangement of species into sections.
Contrary to
my note in April 2002 it seems that Musa sp. "Yunnan" really is Musa
itinerans. The reasons for my confusion are given here.
Leading on
from the above it seems as if discussions on "Yunnan" have flushed out a
hitherto unrecognised, un-named and undescribed Musa species in Vietnam, Chuoi Rung Hoa Soan.
Images added
of "Yunnan", Chuoi Rung Hoa Soan (VN1-054) and Musa itinerans.
Summary 1 and Summary 2 revised -
again.
June 2002
Musa alinsanaya - a new Australimusa from the
Philippines.
Description of Musa exotica including its tentative
placement in the Callimusa.
Description of Musa paracoccinea including its
tentative placement in the Callimusa.
Description of Musa acuminata ssp. errans
from the Philippines.
Liu et al 2002 and later Argent & Kiew 2002 finally (?) resolve the
Musa coccinea Andrews vs Musa uranoscopos Loureiro issue - it's Musa coccinea Andrews.
It has been
known in Japan for many years but thanks to Ai-zhong Liu and colleagues there is at last a
paper in English (Liu et al 2002) that acknowledges
Musa basjoo as a Chinese species not a Japanese one.
Summary 1 and Summary 2 revised -
again.
April 2002
Musa sp. "Yunnan". It's not Musa itinerans, but a seemingly undescribed
species.
Summary 1 and Summary 2 revised -
again.
Full details of the newly described Musa paracoccinea to follow soon.
January 2002
Musa lawitiensis Nasution and Supardiyono
a new species from Indonesia.
Musa johnsii Argent a new species from New Guinea.
Musa formosana from Taiwan reduced under Musa basjoo.
Summary 1 and Summary 2 revised -
again.
February
2001
Shepherd 1999 considers it is a
"near certainty" that Musa ornata is a "secondary species", a
relic of a [relatively recent] hybrid swarm between Musa flaviflora and Musa
velutina!
Summary 1 and Summary 2 revised,
especially section Callimusa following receipt of information from Markku Häkkinen.
More images
of the extraordinary Musa suratii courtesy of
Jain Linton, Taman Pertanian Sabah.
Images of Musa ingens, the largest banana species in the
world, in habitat in Papua New Guinea courtesy of Dr Jeff Daniells, Queensland Department
of Primary Industry.
January 2001
Description and images of Musa suratii, an exciting
and intriguing new species from Malaysia.
UK Musaceae page re-formatted to be easier to read (hopefully!
let me know).
There are now some images of all valid Ensete species that have been formally
described:-
Photograph
added of Ensete perrieri, courtesy of Dr.
Thierry Deroin, Laboratoire de Phanérogamie, Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle,
Paris.
Photographs
added of Ensete superbum in cultivation and in
the wild in Kerala, India.
Photograph
added of Ensete glaucum flowering in Ganesh Mani Pradhan's garden, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
December
2000
New species added to the Summary.
Photographs
added of the little known African Ensete, Ensete homblei.
Courtesy Mike Bingham.
Photographs
added showing the flowering sequence of Musa laterita.
Courtesy Markku Häkkinen. Musa laterita is a
little Indian Rhodochlamys sold in the trade under the incorrect names of Musa
ornata 'Bronze' and Musa ornata 'Red Salmon'.
Photographs added of Ensete ventricosum
flowering in Ganesh Mani Pradhan's garden, Kalimpong, West
Bengal, India.
Anyone with seed of Musa dechangensis ex Ruud
Meeldijk has probably got seed of Musa basjoo and not Musa balbisiana as
previously reported. The mistake was caused by an error in the Chinese literature.
October 2000
Bananas You Can Grow an excellent new
book for banana enthusiasts by Jim Waddick and Glenn Stokes is available.
Musa images reorganised and more added.
September
2000
Musa
saporro - from Saporro, Hokkaido, offered for the first time commercially but it
seems most likely that it is a form of Musa basjoo.
Musa dechangensis - from China, offered for the first
time commercially but it is actually a form of Musa balbisiana [note added
December: M. dechangensis actually = M. basjoo. The mistake was
caused by an error in the Chinese literature].
Ensete wilsonii separated from Ensete glaucum by
Flora of China. [note added in December: This also seems to be a mistake and it is most
probable that E. wilsonii should after all be reduced under E. glaucum].
New images
Musella lasiocarpa flowering in Yunnan.
Ensete glaucum from Roxburgh's Plants of the
coast of Coromandel.
Ensete superbum from Roxburgh's Plants of the
coast of Coromandel.
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