Chinese Dwarf Banana
സ്വർണ്ണത്താമരവാഴ
Musella lasiocarpa (Franch.) C.Y.Wu ex H.W.Li
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 75 cm
Musaceae
Also called Golden Lotus Banana
Formerly Ensete lasiocarpum, Musa lasiocarpa, Musella splendida
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Herbaceous shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (W. & S. Yunnan, S. Guizhou) to N. VietnamKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Chinese
- 地涌金莲
- Simplified Chinese
- 地金莲, 地母金莲, 地涌莲
- Malayalam
- സ്വർണ്ണത്താമരവാഴ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Musella lasiocarpa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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