NOUN
- small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae
How To Use Strelitzia In A Sentence
- It's on days like these - when the plaster cast has come off, that I need to paint my monkeys next to the strelitzia flower.
- It is planted with many varieties of Cape fynbos, cycads, huge strelitzias, beds of clivias, large arum lilies, proteas and trees such as yellowwood and cabbage.
- It is planted with many varieties of Cape fynbos, cycads, huge strelitzias, beds of clivias, large arum lilies, proteas and trees such as yellowwood and cabbage.
- The Consultant grew two or three strelitzias from seed about eight years ago, and very kindly gave me one.
- Large tropical flowers, like heliconia and strelitzia, are good, too.
- His first design was created in a low bowl with fatsia leaves, Scots pine, oak leaves, strelitzia leaves and papyrus, then three large alliums and Singapore orchids were placed with skeletonised tenax leaves and some moss.
- Another is the luxuriant tropical gardens bursting with cycads and strelitzia, a splendid sight. Times, Sunday Times
- Strelitzia alba will add glamour to the planting. Times, Sunday Times
- Although one certainly wouldn't call the work representational, the apparently abstract lines, forms and colours she chooses clearly reference bones, strelitzias or wings amongst other things.
