Bird of Paradise flower in Jeju
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Bird of Paradise flower in Jeju

by John Hawkins
(Jeju Island, South Korea)

Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise in Yeomiji Botanical Garden Jeju South Korea. The gardens were a wonderful place to enjoy the beauty as we slowly walked among the thousands of flowers.

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Bird of Paradise Flower
by: Anonymous

Such beauty! A native plant from South Africa and pollinated by birds? Read on with a little more info on this strange but gorgeous flower:

Strelitzia [1] is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. The genus is named after the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower, because of a supposed resemblance of its flowers to the bird of paradise. In South Africa it is commonly known as a crane flower.

Strelitzia
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Strelitzia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Strelitziaceae
Genus: Strelitzia
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Species

The species S. nicolai is the largest in the genus, reaching 10 m tall, with stately white and blue flowers;[2] the other species typically reach 2 to 3.5 m tall, except S. caudata which is a tree of a typically smaller size than S. nicolai. The leaves are large, 30?200 cm long and 10?80 cm broad, similar to a banana leaf in appearance but with a longer petiole, and arranged strictly in two ranks to form a fan-like crown of evergreen foliage. The flowers are produced in a horizontal inflorescence emerging from a stout spathe. They are pollinated by sunbirds, which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers; the weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the bird's feet, which is then deposited on the next flower it visits.

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