ravenala or giant bird of paradise ?

[Yukinoroh]

I thought I bought a ravenala (ravenala madagascariensis), but now I have doubts it could be a giant bird of paradise (strelitzia nicolai)... Any ideas on how to identify it correctly ?

(The leaves are fan-shaped, so it is not strelitzia alba/augusta, and are bigger than those of strelitzia reginae... So I'm left with ravenala and gbop.)

[Cereus-validus]

gbop? Is that anything like bebop or shebop?

Maybe you can wait until it blooms?

Do you have a very high ceiling?

[Yukinoroh]

"Cereus-validus" wrote in news:zMdDc.1737$ [e-mail]:

LOL!

I meant, giant bird of paradise (strelitzia nicolai) ;)

Regular ceiling (°_°) I heard it blooms once in three years too... Or something near that...