Musa nagensium - Nagaland Banana

Nagaland Banana is a slender plant, slightly-suckering, close to parent plant, 20-25 cm, suckers 3-4, vertically arranged. Mature pseudostems are 3.5-7 m high, 50-60 cm diam. Leaves are habit drooping, more remote from each other, blade 130-210 x 40-46 cm, oblong-lanceshaped, flat at tip, upper surface green, dull, with reddish-brown margin. Leaf-stalks slender, 45-55 cm long, bases winged, with red margins and clasping the pseudostem. Inflorescence is semi- drooping or first horizontal then drooping, flower-cluster-stalk 20-45 cm long, 3-5 cm in diameter, dark green with some purple pigmentation, glaucous, without grooves. Sterile bracts 1-5, deciduous or persistent, 20-30 cm long, green to yellow- orange, glaucous above. Female bud almost cylindrical or lanceshaped, highly overlappingd or imbrications confined to tip. Bracts 13-23 x 5-10 cm, oblong-lanceshaped, smooth, above yellow- orange combined with brick red or variables of red, yellow and orange, margins red, waxy, below orange, shiny, tip blunt, lifting one bract at a time, not curled before falling. Basal 4-8 hands female. Flowers 4-12 per bract in two rows, Male bud lanceshaped to cylindrical, highly overlapping or imbrications confined to tip, axis falling vertically, growing around 1 m. Fruit bunch lax, with 4-8 hands and 4-12 fruits per hand, in two rows. individual fruits are 12-15 cm long, stalk 1.8-2 cm long, hairless, tip slightly pointed, without any floral relicts, immature fruit pulp white, becoming white and soft at maturity, fruits not self-peeling at maturity. Nagaland Banana is native to NE India to China. Flowering: June-December.