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Colourful Bird of Paradise flower

            It is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae.  A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower / plant, because of a resemblance of its flowers to birds-of-paradise. In South Africa it is commonly known as a crane flower and is featured on the reverse of the 50 cent coin. It is the floral emblem of the City of Los Angeles; two of the species, Strelitzia nicolai and Strelitzia reginae, are frequently grown as house plants. The species S. nicolai is the largest in the genus, reaching 10 m tall, with stately white and blue flowers; the other species typically reach 2 to 3.5 m tall, except S. caudata which is a tree of a typically smaller size than S. nicolai. The leaves are large, 30–200 cm long and 10–80 cm broad, similar to a banana leaf in appearance but with a longer petiole, and arranged strictly in two ranks to form a fan-like crown of evergreen foliage. The flowers are produced in a horizontal inflorescence emerging from a stout spathe.  4778
   

Taken on: September 11, 2016

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Camera: Canon EOS 650D, f/5.6, 1/125 sec, 100mm, ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 650D
Lens:	EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.0 (Windows)
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