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Hi Ed I don't know if I have the exact variety of banana you're looking for but I have a large banana clump of what was described as a Sydney banana, or sugar banana. The best thing you can do with the fruit on these is cook with them, cos they're a tad floury. But the leaves make great plates :-) It withstands periodic frosts here just fine, and is quite prolific. Send me your address, remind me occasionally cos I'm vague, and when it suckers I'll send you a couple. Now prolly isn't a good time to plant them is it? They don't sucker til Spring... cya DarkLight

The People and Plants site is one I can recommend as a good starting point. I've been interested in their work for some time, but lack the time to do anything more than dream...for the moment. Unfortunately my browser setup didn't let me access their address from the data I saved from their site, but I think I got to People and Plants via the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew site. If you have any trouble finding either of the above places using search engines let me know and I'll scour what is laughingly referred to as my memory. Their work looks good, and the site itself was offering an online course, from the looks of my saved data. Just going over my files briefly got me wishing someone'd clone *me* off so I could send one of my extra selves out to study :-) cya darklight