Pink Bird of Paradise

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.

I've not seen them, but there are similar plants which sometimes have the common name of bird of paradise and they are Heliconia.

Here is a link to a picture:

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.

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?

Could you please send me some of those seeds?

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: