Re: [GWL]: Usage and terminology

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Usage and terminology
• From: Bill Shear wshear@hams-hsc.hsc.edu>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:23:18 -0500
• List-archive: <http://topica.com/lists/Gardenwriters/read>

On 1/31/02 8:59 AM, "Sheri Richerson" <voulezvous@fwi.com> wrote:

> 
> Also, has anyone ever heard of banana pups called pips?  My new editor
> said she had heard them called pips and thought pups was the wrong word.
> She also said she thought pips was a plant term.  I have never heard of
> the word pips.  Can anyone let me know the answer to this one?

By banana "pups" I guess you mean the side shoots from the main rhizome.
I've never heard them so-named.  "Pips" is a term commonly used to refer to
the underground growth buds (rhizomes? corms? bulbs?) of Convallaria,
Lily-of-the-valley, particularly the rare variety 'Gladys Knight'.

Bill Shear

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