Does anyone have or has anyone seen Pink Bird of Paradise? I'm wondering if they are similar to Red Bird of Paradise except for the color?
Sharon
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20 years ago
Pink Bird of Paradise
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20 years ago
Common names are often very misleading.
Do you have a link to a picture of this plant we can see?
I would suspect that it might be something in the Ginger family rather than a Strelitzia.
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20 years ago
I've not seen them, but there are similar plants which sometimes have the common name of bird of paradise and they are Heliconia.
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Here is a link to a picture:
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Your picture shows just how misleading and useless common names are.
The plant has absolutely nothing at all to do with Strelitzia or Heliconia. It isn't even a monocot.
Its a Caesalpinia, an arborescent legume.
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20 years ago
They call that plant Pride of Barbados or Texas Bird of Paradise. It drives me crazy. I have a beautiful cache of seeds from my four foot plant. Anyone want some seeds? Very easy to propagate. I can spare a few seeds, but I am growing them for a local garden center...so don't have tons to give out.
Victoria-by the way, it also comes in a yellow. Does anyone have seeds of that one?
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Could you please send me some of those seeds?
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Send me your address to: snipped-for-privacy@animaux.net remove the zero or it will bounce. Here is a photo of mine this past season:
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