Re: musa ensete

[Monique Reed]

I don't think so, in the traditional bonsai sense. You have no wood
to work with, no woody branches to snip back and prune. The "trunk"
is merely leaf bases folded round each other and the growing point.
You might be able to stunt one with root confinement, but I doubt
you'd get true miniaturization.

Monique Reed
>
> I want to know if it can be grown as a Banzai.
>
> ;)
>
> Sean
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[Iris Cohen]

<< I want to know if it can be grown as a Banzai. >>

The spelling is bonsai. With very few exceptions, only dicots (Magnoliopsida)
among the flowering plants can be used for bonsai. I have a pygmy date palm
which is called a bonsai by courtesy, because a true date palm is 100 feet tall
and a full size Phoenix roebelenii in a mall is 50 feet tall. It grows one to
three trunks & is in a 10 inch pot. Every other year or so I repot it & hack
off most of the roots. At least a palm has a somewhat woody trunk. A banana is
an herbaceous plant. Some species are smaller than others, but not bonsai
material. Can't you find something else?

Iris,
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[David D.]

(Sean Houtman) wrote in message

> I want to know if it can be grown as a Banzai.
>
> ;)
>
> Sean

Well, if you were a kamikaze pilot, perhaps you could throw a couple
of bonzai at the enemy below, as you shouted "Banzai" . . .

[P van Rijckevorsel]

> From: (David D.)
> >> I want to know if it can be grown as a Banzai. ;)

> >> Sean

> >Well, if you were a kamikaze pilot, perhaps you could throw a couple
> >of bonzai at the enemy below, as you shouted "Banzai" . . .

Sean Houtman > schreef
> I was starting to wonder if anyone was going to get this one. Since we
were discussing Musa, perhaps we could just throw some banana peels at them.

> Sean

+ + +
Actually I did not think it was that good since it suffers from a logical
flaw. The only people who will be badly effected by having a bonsai thrown
at them would be Japanese (aghast at the sacriledge). Since Kamikaze pilots
yelling "banzai" are also Japanese this would only be effective in a
Japanese Civil War...
PvR

Not to mention that Kamikaze pilots do not throw anything down

[Sean Houtman]

From: "P van Rijckevorsel"

>Actually I did not think it was that good since it suffers from a logical
>flaw. The only people who will be badly effected by having a bonsai thrown
>at them would be Japanese (aghast at the sacriledge). Since Kamikaze pilots
>yelling "banzai" are also Japanese this would only be effective in a
>Japanese Civil War...
>PvR
>
>Not to mention that Kamikaze pilots do not throw anything down
>
>

Well, they do throw themselves down.

Sean



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[P van Rijckevorsel]

> From: "P van Rijckevorsel"
> >Actually I did not think it was that good since it suffers from a logical
flaw. The only people who will be badly effected by having a bonsai thrown
at them would be Japanese (aghast at the sacriledge). Since Kamikaze pilots
yelling "banzai" are also Japanese this would only be effective in a
Japanese Civil War...
PvR

> >Not to mention that Kamikaze pilots do not throw anything down

=======
Sean Houtman > schreef
> Well, they do throw themselves down.
> Sean

+ + +
On the theory that Japanese identify themselves so closely with bonzai, that
they actually think of themselves as being bonsai?
PvR

[Sean Houtman]

From: (Iris Cohen)

><< I want to know if it can be grown as a Banzai. >>
>
>The spelling is bonsai. With very few exceptions, only dicots (Magnoliopsida)
>among the flowering plants can be used for bonsai. I have a pygmy date palm
>which is called a bonsai by courtesy, because a true date palm is 100 feet
>tall
>and a full size Phoenix roebelenii in a mall is 50 feet tall. It grows one to
>three trunks & is in a 10 inch pot. Every other year or so I repot it & hack
>off most of the roots. At least a palm has a somewhat woody trunk. A banana
>is
>an herbaceous plant. Some species are smaller than others, but not bonsai
>material. Can't you find something else?
>

Urrrg

I thought that the smiley would have been obvious there, especially with the
misspelling and all.

Sean



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