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Pflanze strelitzia nicolai.
Giant bird of paradise strelitzia nicolai a crown of banana like leaves atop a palm tree trunk combined with huge uniquely beautiful flowers is deserving of the name bird of paradise tree related to the bird of paradise flower strelitzia regina this close cousin is a much larger plant forming huge clumps of stems to 30 feet in.
Strelitzia nicolai giant white bird of paradise is an ornamental house plant.
The inflorescence is composed of a dark blue bract white sepals and a bluish purple tongue.
Af rusland 1796 1855 der var russisk zar og konge af polen den danske betegnelse er kommet af samme årsag som ved artssøsteren strelitzia reginae på denne plante er blomsterne dog hvide.
Unlike strelitzia alba the inflorescence of strelitzia nicolai is compound.
Strelitzia nicolai is an erect evergreen banana like plant up to 20 feet 6 m tall and up to 11 feet 3 3 m wide with erect woody stems.
The leaves are grey green up to 6 feet 1 8 m long and arranged like a fan at the top of the stems.
Strelitzia nicolai på dansk hvid paradisfugl er opkaldt efter nikolaj 1.
Die strelitzia nicolai kommt im tropen look daher.
Da wären ihre bananenartigen blätter zu nennen ihre beachtliche wuchshöhe von bis zu 12 m und ihre außergewöhnlichen blüten die an die köpfe von paradiesvögeln erinnern.
Strelitzia nicolai commonly known as the giant white bird of paradise or wild banana is a species of banana like plants with erect woody stems reaching a height of 6 m 20 ft and the clumps formed can spread as far as 3 5 m 11 ft.
Reginae is very well known and arguably the most common species picture above.
White bird of paradise strelitzia alba this tropical flowering plant has large foliage and white flowers crane lily strelitzia reginae the most elegant of the strelitzia varieties hence the name.
It is made up of not 1 but up to 5 spathes a spathe is a bract a modified specialised leaf that appears different from the calyx or corolla.
If the pot is big enough it can grow to 2 m 6 6 ft tall with large tough banana like leaves 25 70cm 9 8 28in long.
From the five species of strelitzia two are popular houseplants these are strelitzia reginae and strelitzia nicolai here are more descriptions of these unusually looking flowering plants.