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"Ice Cream", a delicious and vanilla-tasting fruit waiting to ripen and be fed to customers at our fruit tasting table. Exotica's Bananas Musa species - The banana "tree" - one of the most diverse and useful plants at our nursery! Bananas come in all shapes adn sizes from dwarf specimens that produce edible fruit in containers to the highly sought Ae Ae bananas with striped fruit and leaves to the extict-in-nature Chinese Yellow Banana. The fruits are edible (well, mostly, I can name names), the leaves make excellent wrappings for tamales and other cookings, you can make paper out of their fibers, and they lend an air of tropical beauty to any landscape. Bananas grow fast and appreciate a well-drained but very nutrient-rich environment. We grow all organic here at Exotica and our bananas benefit from worm compost, conventional compost, and fish emulsion. There is no need to resort to chemical fertilizers for these fast-growning and easy plants. Most bananas prefer full sun. Many bananas will survive a frost if mulched but will die to the ground and come back the following spring. There is even a way to get them to fruit in cold climates by selecting a variety that will grow and fruit within 8 months. when frost hit, simply protect the roots and you can rpeat this process each year! Come in to the nursery adn we can recommend one of our 125 cultivars for your exact climate and needs. Cultivars include Ae Ae Banana, Praying Hands Banana, Ice Cream Banana, Brazillian Banana, Dwarf Apple Banana, Chinese Yellow Banana (flowering - extinct in the wild!), Orinoco Banana, and many more bananas. Come by to taste test throughout the year! Musa paradisa variegata The highly sought Ae Ae Banana. Come see our mature specimen in the front near the office! This will produce edible striped fruits as well and likes brightm indirect sunlight and warmth

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