Grow your own exotic fruit with the Cuban Red Banana Plant (Red Dacca)—a tropical variety known for its deep red skin and sweet, creamy flavor with berry-like notes. This plant offers both ornamental beauty and edible fruit potential, ideal for home gardeners and collectors.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Produces unique red bananas with sweet, creamy flavor
• Exotic tropical fruit plant suitable for home growing
• Beautiful ornamental foliage and edible harvest
• Great for containers or backyard gardens
• Rare and eye-catching variety

What You’ll Receive

• 1 live Cuban Red (Red Dacca) banana plant
• Healthy, rooted starter plant
• Size may vary (starter stage)
• Carefully packaged for safe delivery

Fruit & Flavor

• Skin: Red to reddish-purple when ripe
• Taste: Sweeter than yellow bananas with berry-like notes
• Texture: Soft, creamy, dessert-quality
• Shape: Shorter, thicker fruit than Cavendish

Perfect for:

• Fresh eating
• Smoothies
• Baking & desserts

Growing Conditions

• Light: Full sun preferred
• Water: Regular watering for best growth
• Soil: Rich, well-draining soil
• Climate: Best in USDA Zones 9–11
• Can be grown in containers in cooler climates

Cold Sensitivity

• Not frost-hardy
• Protect from temperatures below ~32°F (0°C)
• In cooler areas, grow in pots and bring indoors for winter

Growth & Fruiting

• Fast-growing in warm conditions
• Can reach 8–12+ feet tall
• Fruiting requires consistent warmth and time (typically 12–24+ months)

Best suited for warm climates or greenhouse/container growing in cooler regions

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.