Musa velutina, the Pink Banana, is an ornamental variety grown for it's flowers and fruits. Fruits are 3 inches long, pink, and fuzzy with black round seeds. They are borne on erect flower stalks with a pink inflorescence. M. velutina flowers at a young age, doing so within a year. The fruits peel back when ripe.
However, more than an ornamental, the fruits are actually edible if you don't mind working around the seeds. They will peel themselves back when ripe. If you catch them at the right time, but you have only maybe a day or so to catch it when ripe, opened, and unspoiled, you'll notice the best flavour.
Bananas are herbaceous plants that have a “pseudostem” a cylinder of leaf-petiole sheaths, because of this they are sometimes mistaken for tree
Their rapid growth rate makes bananas plants heavy feeders. During warm weather, apply a balanced fertilizer once a month. Spread the fertilizer evenly around the plant in a circle extending 4 feet from the trunk. Feed container banana plants on the same monthly schedule using about half the rate for outside plants.
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