LightSpecies-level: full sun for best production; tolerates some shade.
Fruit Plants
Banana Tella Chakkerakeli
Tella Chakkerakeli
Musa (AAB)
Andhra\u2019s favourite table banana — thin skin, sweet aromatic pulp, heavy commercial bunches.
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In stockAvailable sizesSuckers / TC plants
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Plant guide
Know your plant
Growing characteristics and practical care notes.
WaterSpecies-level, Florida guidance: about 2.5–3.8 cm weekly; avoid flooding and persistently wet soil.
Growth habitSpecies-level: herbaceous clump of upright pseudostems.
- Growth habit
- Species-level: herbaceous clump of upright pseudostems.
- Growth rate
- Species-level: fast-growing.
- Foliage
- Species-level: large leaf blades; leaf sheaths form pseudostems.
- Flowers / fruit
- TNAU describes Chakkerakeli fruit as sweet and juicy; identity with this Tella-named plant is unconfirmed.
- Light
- Species-level: full sun for best production; tolerates some shade.
- Watering
- Species-level, Florida guidance: about 2.5–3.8 cm weekly; avoid flooding and persistently wet soil.
- Soil
- Species-level: deep, well-drained soil.