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Strelitzia caudata
Also called Mountain Bird Of Paradise, Mountain Mock Banana, Mountain Strelitzia, Strelitzia, Wild Strelitzia, Mountain Bird Of Paradise Flower
Strelitzia caudata, commonly known as the mountain strelitzia or wild banana, is a species of banana-like Strelitzia from Africa from the Chimanimani Mountains of Zimbabwe south to Mozambique, the Northern Provinces of South Africa and Eswatini (Swaziland). It is one of three large banana-like Strelitzia species, all of which are native to southern Africa, the other two being S. alba and S. nicolai.
It usually grows in dense clumps, in areas of montane forests and is found between rocks on steep grassy slopes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Strelitzia caudata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
