Traveller's palm
രാവേനലपांथस्थचे झाडপান্থপাদপ
Ravenala madagascariensis Sonn.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 9.6 m
- wide
- 6.1 m
Strelitziaceae
Also called Traveller's Palm, Traveller's Tree
Formerly Heliconia ravenala, Urania madagascariensis, Urania ravenala, Urania speciosa
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. & SE. MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 8.1 m to 11 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 30–50 ft; Wikipedia 7–7 m
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Arbre du voyageur, Ravenale
- Portuguese
- Árvore-do-viajante
- Polish
- Pielgrzan madagaskarski
- Chinese
- 旅人蕉
- Spanish
- Palma del Viajero
- Thai
- กล้วยพัด
- Danish
- rejsendes træ
- Russian
- Равенала мадагаскарская
- Japanese
- オウギバショウ, タビビトノキ
- German
- Baum der Reisenden
- Chinese (China)
- 旅人蕉
- Finnish
- matkustajainpuu
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Ravenala madagascariensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.