Super Banana from Embrapa, cultivar name not known anymore

Dessert Banana, Fruit Banana

One huge plant of the group AAAB, it is tetraploid and was bred and selected by Embrapa in Brazil, it is similar to Musa 'Prata', but disease resistant and managed amazingly with the sandy soil by good care and fertilization at one suitable place. It belongs to the largest of our largest banana trees, has huge leaves. It came as one small by tissue culture propagated plant to us in 2009 and Antonio kept and grew it, it was the only survived plant of the shipment from Embrapa in 2009. Today I would to prefer plant by tissue culture propagated plants at first into red clay and later transplant into Terra Preta. One new shipment was much more successfully in the red clay soil and at first shaded by palm leaves, but the frost from June 26th 2011 killed one part of the plants, the survived plants are Musa 'Jaipira', Musa 'Preciosa' and Musa 'Garantida' and grew up to huge plants today because of my better experiences of the past years.

Surprisely this new cultivar has proen as really good cold tolerant, but also not as hardy Musa basjoo. One small first yield self survived during the whole first yield from Musa 'Nanição' was destroyed. Absolutely this new cultivar is much hardier.ernichtet wurde.