Musa, Banana 'Ice Cream'

From Just Fruits and Exotics: "This banana plant is covered with a silvery-white powder. When the fruit is ripe, the snow-white flesh is ...Read Morehoney sweet and tastes like vanilla ice-cream. Honest! Bare root only. Zones 8B-10."

Some friends from Hawaii visited and named it an "apple Banana", stating they are common and prized there. They are very good.
La...Read Morest year we had some at about 20 feet tall. A few years ago I had to use a tall ladder to get the fruit down, and it was very heavy.

I just posted two images of Musa acuminata. One is of a bunch of young bananas hanging in a 15 foot tall tree and the other is of a sing...Read Morele flower.
This banana grows all over southern California in frost free areas. When ripe the fruit is delicious with a distinct apple flavor. The plant has three pups at its base, the tallest is already one meter and will produce next year's crop.

July 22, 2005. I agree with what "trois" wrote. This banana has a distinct apple flavor when fully ripe. This year I have five plants growing and may get one or two bunches of fruit this fall and more next summer. Yummy!

I've been growing 8 of these plants, my friends know them as my babies. I am quite suprised by how fast they grow and how interesting the...Read Morey are compared to native plants of my area. I purchased 6, 2 were brutalized in shipping so my vendor send me new ones at no charge. I nursed them all back to health and the look incredible in pots. I don't know what I am going to do when they get full size though. I have one banana tree now in Michigan that is about 5ft tall, and thats in the largest pot I could find at Home Depot. For northern growers I would say be patient, if you keep them outside when you watch the news and see its cold bring them in. I am also growing Californa Hardy, and Dwarf Cavandish. I want them to eventually grow banana's but am not looking forward to them dying afterwards.

This is one of maybe hundreds of edible forms of this species, but the one I think tastes the best is one of the more reliable growers in...Read More Southern California. The flavor is incredible- very creamy and sweet. It only takes 2, maybe 3 years from a seedling to fruit producing mass of bananas. It helps a lot of thin out the suckers to 1-2, leaving the main plant to only have to compete with a few suckers... otherwise too much energy goes into the suckers and the main stem doesn't make as much fruit. Once fruiting, it dies and one or two of the suckers will fruit out in a year or two. Frost is a big problem in zone 9b, and will usually set back the plant and stop the fruit maturing dead in its tracks.. you need basically a frost free winter to get a good set of fruit.