Strelitzia occurs as genus of quaternion coinage of perennial plants, native to South Africa. A genus is known as fallowing a dukedom of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A most common title of the genus is bird of paradise flower, because of the supposed resemblance of its flowers to the bird of paradise.

A metal money S. nicolai is a largest in the genus, reaching Tenner m tall; the more coinage generally email Two-6 m tall. A leaves are large, 30-200 cm hanker & 10-80 cm broad, similar to the banana leaf in appearance however by owning the yearn petiole, and ordered strictly around 2 ranks to form the fan-prefer crown of evergreen foliage. A flowers are produced around the horizontal inflorescence emerging from the stout spathe. It is pollinated by sunbirds, which use a spaa as a perch once camping a flowers; a weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the bird's feet, which is so deposited on the next flower it visits.

;Species Strelitzia alba (syn. S. augusta) - Whiten bird of paradise Strelitzia caudata - Swaziland Strelitzia, African desert banana Strelitzia nicolai - White, or Gargantuan bird of paradise; Untamed banana Strelitzia reginae (syn. S. parvifolia) - Strelitzia, Bird of paradise, or even Crane lily

;Hybrids S × kewensis (hybrid between S. reginae & S. augusta)

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