Mona Lisa
Also called FHIA-02
A dessert banana with an apple-sweet flavor, bred as a disease-resistant hybrid rather than a grocery Cavendish.
This variety
The fruit
A dessert banana with an apple-sweet flavor, bred as a disease-resistant hybrid rather than a grocery Cavendish.
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- Taste
- A dessert banana with an apple-sweet flavor, bred as a disease-resistant hybrid rather than a grocery Cavendish.
- Ripens
- The bunch is ready when the fingers plump and the sharp ridges fade, usually 9 to 15 months after a pup takes off. Hang the cut stalk to finish ripening.
- Zones
- Zones 9 to 11.
- Hardiness
- Frost burns the leaves. A thick mulch over the corm can save the clump after a light freeze.
- Size
- A medium clump, often 8 to 12 feet, with several pups around the mother.
- Tips
- Water in the warm months, feed with compost, and cut the spent stalk to the ground after harvest so the next pup gets the light.
- Pollination
- No partner needed. The fruit is seedless.