Plant's Details

Scientific Name
Ravenala madagascariensis J. F. Gmel.
Category
Angiosperms
Created on Date
2024-09-24 06:08:10
Common Name
Traveller’s Palm
Synonym(s)
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Family
Strelitziaceae
Status
Live
Description

Robust, tall arborescent herbs. Leaves distichous, closely setting, ovate-oblong, spreading. Flowers sessile, subzygomorphic, in compact monochasial cymes, each flower enclosed in a bract. Stamens 6. Capsules linear-oblong.

Flowering and Fruiting: October–January

Native of Madagascar, commonly cultivated in gardens. Fruit setting very rare.