Traveler's Tree Ravenala madagascariensis 10 Seeds

The Traveler’s Tree is a spectacular tropical tree native to Madagascar that has large, banana-like leaves which are arranged in a flat plane like a fan. It will grow up to 30-50' tall. It grows in moist forests in the wild. It has now been planted in subtropical and tropical areas around the world, including central and southern Florida, southern Texas, southern California and Hawaii. This plant features an unbranched trunk (to 12" diameter) which is topped by a fan-shaped single plane of enormous, long-stalked, banana-like, deep green leaves (20-30 per trunk). Each leaf blade is 5-10' long by 2-3' wide and appears at the end of a thick, grooved leaf stalk (petiole) which is as long or longer than the leaf blade. Leaf margins are sometimes split as is the case with some bananas. Up to one quart of rain water will accumulate in the expanded and cupped base of each leaf stalk, thus giving rise to the common names for this plant which suggests an emergency drinking water source for trave