Strelitzia nicolai - Giant-Bird-of-Paradise
By Delonix1
16 Mar, 2012
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These flowers were way up among the leaves. Meanie, and you thought you needed to get high up for your photo. lol! :>) Photo taken in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. on Mar. 15, 2012.
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The difference between your local specimen and this one is: this one is growing outside and is 30ft/10m tall.
Many of the leaves on this plant need to be cut off...however, with this being said, this is how they grow in nature.
16 Mar, 2012
That's true, and ours never has to contend with wind either.
16 Mar, 2012
The leaves still rip even if there's very little wind.
17 Mar, 2012
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Oooh, I've been dying to say something like this to Delonix one day!
The leaves on that one look rather tiddly!
I'll post a photo of our local specimen to show the difference!!
16 Mar, 2012