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Dwarf Cavendish Banana
Musa acuminata ‘Dwarf Cavendish’
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Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Dwarf Cavendish Banana - Musa acuminata ‘Dwarf Cavendish’
‘Dwarf Cavendish’ is the short statured banana that made backyard fruit possible in windy suburban gardens, carrying a full commercial style bunch on a pseudostem barely taller than a person. Musa acuminata in this form holds its broad paddle leaves low and tight, so it takes far less wind damage than the tall Cavendish types grown commercially. Gardeners choose it over ornamental bananas because it actually crops, and over taller edible varieties because the bunch stays within reach.
Why Dwarf Cavendish Banana
Compact pseudostem: A cropping stem of roughly 1.5 to 2.5m keeps the bunch harvestable from the ground.
Wind resilience: The low centre of gravity and shorter leaf lever mean far less shredding than tall banana varieties suffer.
Continuous clump: Each stem fruits once then dies, but suckers replace it, so a managed clump keeps producing indefinitely.
Instant tropical mass: Leaves to around 1.5m long give the coarse foliage texture that reads as tropical in a single season.
Container tolerant: It performs in large pots better than almost any other fruiting banana, which suits courtyards and roof terraces.
Ideal Applications
Edible tropical garden: Plant in a warm north facing pocket with pawpaw, ginger and turmeric for a productive tropical bed.
Courtyard focal clump: A single clump against a rendered or dark painted wall gives strong leaf shadow and scale.
Poolside planting: The bold leaf reads well against water, and the clump stays low enough not to shade the pool.
Grey water and downpipe zones: Bananas are heavy drinkers and suit the damp corner of a garden that other plants sulk in.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m between clumps
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3m between clumps
Best Planting Season: Spring and early summer, once night temperatures are reliably above 12 degrees
Soil & Drainage: Rich, deep, well drained soil heavily amended with compost and aged manure; bananas want constant moisture but not waterlogging
Establishment Care: Water two to three times a week through the first summer and mulch thickly with straw or compost, keeping the mulch off the stem itself. Feed monthly through the warm months with a high potassium fertiliser and thin the clump to three or four stems of different ages so the plant puts its energy into fruit rather than suckers.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5 to 2.5m
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m as a managed clump
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen in frost free districts; foliage burns and dies back where frost occurs
Light: Full sun with wind shelter
Native to: The species originates in South East Asia; ‘Dwarf Cavendish’ is a long cultivated selection
Flower Colour: Cream flowers held under a deep purple bract
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







