The leaves are grey green up to 6 feet 1 8 m long and arranged like a fan at the top of the stems.
Pflanze strelitzia nicolai.
Strelitzia nicolai på dansk hvid paradisfugl er opkaldt efter nikolaj 1.
Unlike strelitzia alba the inflorescence of strelitzia nicolai is compound.
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.
The inflorescence is composed of a dark blue bract white sepals and a bluish purple tongue.
She was from the house of mecklenburg strelitz.
Strelitzia nicolai giant white bird of paradise is an ornamental house plant.
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.
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.
There has been some confusion over which nicholas the specific epiphet honours but original description in garden flora states that the name nicolai is in honour of grand duke nikolai nikolaievich the elder third son of czar nicholas i of russia and not for the czar.
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.
Die strelitzia nicolai kommt im tropen look daher.
Reginae is very well known and arguably the most common species picture above.
It is a trunk forming clustering tree to 6m high with banana like shiny green leathery leaves having an obtuse base arranged in two ranks.
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.
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.
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.