Bird of paradise
Strelitzia reginae Banks
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Strelitziaceae
Also called Common bird-of-paradise flower, Bird-of-paradise, Bird of paradise plant, Crane flower
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-NatalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–4 ft; UF/IFAS 3–5 ft; Wikipedia 2–2 m
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–4 ft; UF/IFAS 2–4 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Orange, blue, white, purpleRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, orange, purple, white; UF/IFAS blue, orange; Wikipedia blue, orange, purple, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- flor de ave del paraíso, flor del pájaro
- Chinese
- 天堂鳥蕉, 天堂鳥, 鶴望蘭
- Portuguese
- Ave-do-paraíso, Estrelícia
- French
- Oiseau de paradis
- Afrikaans
- Kraanvoëlblom, kraanvoėlblom
- Finnish
- helokolibrikukka, Helokolibrikukka
- Russian
- Стрелитция королевская
- Japanese
- ゴクラクチョウカ
- Czech
- strelície královská
- Chinese (China)
- 鹤望兰, 天堂鸟, 极乐鸟花
- German
- Paradiesvogelblume
- Polish
- Strelicja królewska
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Strelitzia reginae (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.