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Strelitzia nicolai (Giant White Bird of Paradise)

Synonyms: Strelitzia alba nicolai; Strelitzia quensonii

Wikipedia Abstract

Strelitzia nicolai, commonly known as the giant white bird of paradise or wild banana, is a species of banana-like plants with erect woody stems reaching a height of 6 m (20 ft) and the clumps formed can spread as far as 3.5 m (11 ft). S. nicolai is among the few plants which have been verified to contain the pigment bilirubin, which is usually found in animals.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Arachnothera longirostra (Little Spiderhunter)[3]

Consumers

Shelter for 
Afronycteris nanus nanus (banana pipistrelle)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Pipistrellus nanus, Cori L. Lausen and Robert M. R. Barclay, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 784, pp. 1-7 (2005)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0