{"id":11997,"date":"2018-08-02T02:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T01:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11997"},"modified":"2018-08-02T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:19:39","slug":"banana-republic-in-kew-hot-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/banana-republic-in-kew-hot-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana Republic and Musa Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Banana<\/a><\/p>\n

I have just finished eating a Fyffes banana grown in Costa Rica. They were certified by the Rainforest Alliance and were sold as ‘Ripe, snack size bananas’ and a very appropriate\u00c2\u00a0 name it was. In our fruit bowl we also have ‘organic Fairtrade bananas fro the Dominican Republic cutesy of the EEC at least until brexit by which time they will be well overripe.<\/p>\n

This encouraged me to dig out an old post with photos from Kew in 2010. I was in the middle of a series of posts on fruit trees<\/em> from exotic climes and realise that the Banana didn’t quite fit. Bananas are herbs and do not grow on trees. The stem,\u00c2\u00a0 can grow quite tall in some species and is really just matted together leaves.<\/p>\n

Therefore I offered some of my photographs to show different varieties of Banana growing in Kew hot house and Madeira.<\/p>\n

\"Kew<\/a>
\nRed Banana<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Musa<\/a>
\nVery Red Banana Musa coccinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bananas\"<\/a>
\nCommercial Banana plantation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Banana\"<\/a>
\nBanana in Flower<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Banana<\/a>
\nBanana Crop in Madeira <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read these articles for more information.<\/h3>\n

Banana growing in UK<\/a>
\nExotic Gardens to Visit to see Banana growing in UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Other Musa Species and Genra<\/h3>\n