Strelitzia nicolai
- Product number: 647370
- Origin: South Africa
- Latin: Strelitzia nicolai
As a foliage plant, with its sturdy, sword-shaped, blue-green leaves, it is already imposing and exotic, but the rare colour of its flowers takes the cake: purplish-black bracts with ivory-white flowers on almost black stems. The flower shape has the characteristic crane shape. An easy container plant. The proud, graceful flowers appear after a few years. Height in a pot 100-150cm, in the tropics the plant can grow up to 10m tall!
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Latin: Strelitzia nicolai
Dutch: Paradijsvogelbloem
English: Black Bird of Paradise
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- Flower colour: Purplish-black sheaths with ivory-white flowers
- Origin: South Africa
- Average growth height: More than 200 cm
- Annual or perennial: Perennial
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- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Advanced
- Latin: Strelitzia nicolai
- Dutch: Bird of Paradise flower
- Also known as: Not applicable / Not known
- English: Black Bird of Paradise
