Still, many people grow them for their foliage. You typically will need to divide and repot container banana trees every three years, separating any suckers from the parent plant. Owners of banana ...

Each plant was a clone of roughly the same size and shape, produced from suckers – lateral shoots that develop from the rootstalk – making it easy to mass produce. It means each banana plant ...

Banana weevils and nematodes are also common in crops planted from suckers. Furthermore ... allows multiplication of uniform and high quality plant clones since they inherit the properties ...