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Height 40-50cm
High humidity
Suitable for pets
12-14cm pot
Indirect light
Moderate irrigation
Musa Tropicana
Recommendations
- It is safe for pets.
To fertilize only once a year in order not to burn his roots. Care
Light: He likes the indirect abundant light.
- Watering Moderate: Once a week in winter. Twice a week in summer. When the substratum this dry.
- Humidity: Likes to feel cool, spray twice a week.
Top Tip: It is a slow grower, so we recommend repotting only every 3 years. A well-drained substrate is ideal. Benefits
It is a very grateful and long-lasting tropical plant. Ideal for all types of spaces, with a lot or little light.
- It can be used to create separators for work spaces or rest areas.
- Very decorative due to its tropical touch. When it is happy, it blooms in summer. Helps to purify the air.
Preguntas frecuentes
The 'Tropicana' cultivar can fruit indoors with plenty of light, space and humidity. Bananas are edible — sweeter and smaller than commercial ones. The plant dies after fruiting (it is monocarpic) but leaves offsets that replace the original.
No. The banana plant is fully non-toxic to dogs and cats according to the ASPCA. Fruits, leaves and stems can be ingested without risk. It is one of the safest large indoor plants in pet households.
Bananas have no real trunk: what looks like a stem is a pseudostem made of overlapping leaf bases. The actual stem is underground (the rhizome). That is why a banana 'trunk' can be cut with a knife: it is not woody, just fibrous and watery.
The Tropicana cultivar is dwarf: it reaches 1.5–2 m with large 60–90 cm leaves. The dwarf Cavendish can pass 2.5 m. It grows very fast under good conditions, reaching its maximum within 1–2 years from a young plant.
It is a natural adaptation, not a problem. Large leaves split deliberately along the veins to let wind pass through without tearing — like Strelitzia and Monstera. Indoors with still air it happens less, but it is a sign of a healthy plant.
Musa is native to Southeast Asia and the western Pacific (Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea). It was domesticated some 7,000 years ago and spread to Africa and India millennia ago. Dwarf indoor cultivars are modern 20th-century selections.
Musa Tropicana
Musa Tropicana or "Banana tree", is a plant that originated in Australia.
Musa Tropicana or "Banana tree", is a plant that originated in Australia.
Recommendations
- It is safe for pets.
To fertilize only once a year in order not to burn his roots. Care
Light: He likes the indirect abundant light.
- Watering Moderate: Once a week in winter. Twice a week in summer. When the substratum this dry.
- Humidity: Likes to feel cool, spray twice a week.
Top Tip: It is a slow grower, so we recommend repotting only every 3 years. A well-drained substrate is ideal. Benefits
It is a very grateful and long-lasting tropical plant. Ideal for all types of spaces, with a lot or little light.
- It can be used to create separators for work spaces or rest areas.
- Very decorative due to its tropical touch. When it is happy, it blooms in summer. Helps to purify the air.
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Preguntas frecuentes
The 'Tropicana' cultivar can fruit indoors with plenty of light, space and humidity. Bananas are edible — sweeter and smaller than commercial ones. The plant dies after fruiting (it is monocarpic) but leaves offsets that replace the original.
No. The banana plant is fully non-toxic to dogs and cats according to the ASPCA. Fruits, leaves and stems can be ingested without risk. It is one of the safest large indoor plants in pet households.
Bananas have no real trunk: what looks like a stem is a pseudostem made of overlapping leaf bases. The actual stem is underground (the rhizome). That is why a banana 'trunk' can be cut with a knife: it is not woody, just fibrous and watery.
The Tropicana cultivar is dwarf: it reaches 1.5–2 m with large 60–90 cm leaves. The dwarf Cavendish can pass 2.5 m. It grows very fast under good conditions, reaching its maximum within 1–2 years from a young plant.
It is a natural adaptation, not a problem. Large leaves split deliberately along the veins to let wind pass through without tearing — like Strelitzia and Monstera. Indoors with still air it happens less, but it is a sign of a healthy plant.
Musa is native to Southeast Asia and the western Pacific (Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea). It was domesticated some 7,000 years ago and spread to Africa and India millennia ago. Dwarf indoor cultivars are modern 20th-century selections.
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