-20%Apple Banana Plant (Plátano Manzano)
Musa (AAB group, Silk subgroup) 'Manzano'
The apple banana, plátano manzano in Mexico, is the connoisseur's dessert banana. Its short, plump fingers have a thin skin and firm, creamy-white flesh with a sweet, tangy flavour often compared to apple and strawberry. The secret is patience: eat them only when the skin is fully yellow with black freckles, since underripe fruit is astringent. The plant is tall and graceful, and once established it keeps producing new suckers that fruit in turn, giving you bananas year after year. Available as a rhizome (the most economical option), a young plant or an established plant.
- Sweet-tangy flavour with apple notes
- Short, plump, thin-skinned fingers
- Best eaten fully ripe, freckled
- Suckers keep the harvest coming
Estimated total: $1,560 MXN
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About the Apple Banana Plant (Plátano Manzano)
The apple banana, plátano manzano in Mexico, is the connoisseur's dessert banana. Its short, plump fingers have a thin skin and firm, creamy-white flesh with a sweet, tangy flavour often compared to apple and strawberry. The secret is patience: eat them only when the skin is fully yellow with black freckles, since underripe fruit is astringent. The plant is tall and graceful, and once established it keeps producing new suckers that fruit in turn, giving you bananas year after year. Available as a rhizome (the most economical option), a young plant or an established plant.
How to Care for It
To plant a rhizome (corm), dig a hole about 50 cm wide and deep, mix in compost, and set the corm with its top just at soil level; water once and then sparingly until leaves appear. Bananas want full sun, shelter from strong wind, rich soil and abundant water without waterlogging. Feed monthly with a potassium-rich fertiliser, mulch heavily and remove damaged leaves.
From statement ornamentals like variegated Musa, Siam Ruby and the blood banana to fruiting red, apple and Cavendish bananas. Every variety comes in three sizes: a rhizome (the most affordable way to start), a young plant, or an established plant for instant impact.
Growing Profile
- Botanical name
- Musa (AAB group, Silk subgroup) 'Manzano'
- Family
- Musaceae
- Native to
- Southeast Asia; long established in Mexico as plátano manzano
- Mature height
- 3–5 m
- Plant spacing
- 3 m
- Years to first fruit
- 1–1.5 years
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- High, keep moist
- Cold tolerance
- down to 2 °C
- Best climates
- Humid tropics, Dry tropics, Subtropical
- Grows in a pot
- Best in the ground
- Ships from
- Our farms in Yucatán & Chiapas
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