Hello,

I saw a DIY shop reducing some banana plants to clear. The problem is
they are only identified on the shop label as "houseplant"! There is a
small plastic card pushed into the soil but it simply says "musa". How
can I go about identifying the varierty or do they all look similar?

There were two which had different labels that stated "dwarf
cavendish" but I'm always paranoid about these labels because what's
to stop someone mischieviuosly swapping them between plants? I say
this because the next time I visited, the plants were there but these
tags were nowhere to be seen. Someone had taken them but why?! Perhaps
it was just a child playing?

The plants are very pot bound. What soil should I repot in: just
"normal" compost? I have read about the dwarf cavendish, assuming this
is it, and I know if requires 15C so must be kept indoors in winter.
Is there anything else I need to know?