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Musa sikkimensis 'Red Tiger'
Darjeeling banana
Dark red leaves distinguish this banana from the plain green kinds. It forms a clump about 2-3 m high and 3-4 m wide and holds its foliage year-round in mild areas. Zone 9; keep it out of the wind and water it freely through summer.
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Specifications
- Botanical name
- Musa sikkimensis 'Red Tiger'
- Common name
- Darjeeling banana
- Form
- Palm
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 2-3 m
- Mature spread
- 3-4 m
- Hardiness zone
- 9
- Growth rate
- Very fast
Delivery & establishment
Plants are delivered by refrigerated transport from Pistoia. Large specimens are shipped on pallets; delivery is quoted per order. We can advise on planting season and establishment for any item in the range.
About sizes
CLT is a container volume in litres, VRL the same in a decorative red container. M is a field-grown plant lifted with its root ball, MGR the same grown in isolation and wire-balled. RN is bare root, available in the dormant season. T is a full standard and POT a planter. Heights are given as a range in centimetres; trunk girth is the circumference measured at one metre. A larger container is not always dearer: a trained or grafted form of the same volume costs more than a bush, and the form is named on the row.