I've just found this image online. Looks the same as mine and is called a Hua Plee banana plant. Mystery solved! Lets just hope the nice weather continues long enough to give fruit.
We'll bring it into the conservatory when it cools down as we have done previously. I have just read up on the plant. Apparently the flowers are sterile and won't produce fruit. Other banana plants have both male and female flowers and do produce fruit. oh well never mind. When in full leaf it's a great structural plant. We love it. Best tenner we ever spent.
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I've just found this image online. Looks the same as mine and is called a Hua Plee banana plant. Mystery solved! Lets just hope the nice weather continues long enough to give fruit.
Not a hardy one then Phil. Do you have somewhere to overwinter it?
We'll bring it into the conservatory when it cools down as we have done previously. I have just read up on the plant. Apparently the flowers are sterile and won't produce fruit. Other banana plants have both male and female flowers and do produce fruit. oh well never mind. When in full leaf it's a great structural plant. We love it. Best tenner we ever spent.
Good would be horrible to lose it. Shame about the fruit but with a flower like that who cares!