Originally Posted by PR-Giants

The reality is that most banana growers in the world refer to vegetative offshoots of the banana plant as seedlings. The term seedling was being used long before the United States was even a country. The first time I heard of them being called suckers or pups was when I joined this forum, the terms seem silly but it's mainly only used in the US. Most countries call them seedlings or semillas de guineo/semillas de platano and if the plants were actually grown by seed then further information would be added.