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Strelitzia nicolai Regel & Körn.
Family Strelitziaceae
Common name: Bird of Paradise Tree, Natal Wild Banana

Strelitzia nicolai Regel & Körn. APNI*

Description: Tree-like monocot, to 12 m tall, multi-stemmed, forming dense clumps.

Leaves opposite, long-petiolate, oblong, entire or broken into ribbons by wind, grey-green, shining.

Inflorescence subtended by spathes; flowers to 50 cm long; with 5 stiff purplish blue boat-shaped bracts; sepals white, petals blue.

Seeds black, with a bright orange woolly aril attached.


Habit
Photo Reece Luxton

Flower
Photo Reece Luxton

Fruit
Photo Reece Luxton

Distribution and occurrence: Apparently a garden escape establishing itself in NE NSW in the Grafton and Tweed Heads regions; also naturalised in SE Qld. Native to S Africa and Mozambique.
NSW subdivisions: *NC
Other Australian states: *Qld
AVH map***

Text by K. L. Wilson (Nov 2015)
Taxon concept:


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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