strelitzia

IPA: strˈɛɫɪtziʌ

Examples of "strelitzia" in Sentences

This species is one of two tree like Strelitzia species.
It is clear that it is not a banana if it is more like a Strelitzia.
The strelitzia flower on the shield is a symbol of the province's beauty.
Machetes R Us came last week and chopped the FKN strelitzia down to it’s stumps.
"I found it amazing to have banana plants in my bedroom and soon I was growing exotic things like strelitzia and cycas."
Nelson Mandela waxed poetic about his love of nature when a new strain of strelitzia was named after him at a ceremony in
Plants which have never been seen before on the South African stand include the quiver tree found in the north-western Cape, a five-metre high giant strelitzia, cycads, tree ferns, highveld thatching grass and kiepersol trees.
The National Botanical Institute, which runs Kirstenbosch, said in a statement that although some specimens of the new strelitzia had been distributed to botanical gardens and nurserymen, it had waited for a special occasion to release it to the world at large.
They had arrived at a thick belt of forest, consisting of acacias and evergreen shrubs, and trees of the strelitzia, zamia, and speckboom, when their ears were assailed by the sound of breaking branches, and the unmistakable rushing of some large animals through the thicket.