Talk:Strelitzia

message: Who cares if these were incidentally on some TV show?  The section could be renamed "trivia" or deleted entirely.
—DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 00:32, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Media 

message: Requested move:  :Bird of paradise (disambiguation) → :Bird of paradise.  Please read and contribute to survey here.  --Una Smith (talk) 23:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice of requested move 

message: given as 10m in the text and 6m as a photo legend.  anyone have an authoritative figure?  Dizm (talk) 09:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 10 m per . Will fix caption. (Re gallery, I'm in favour of having a few pictures just so the reader can see what the different types of Strelitzia look like.) --JN466 02:14, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think removal of the gallery is in accordance with WP:IG. It would be nice to have a longer article that discusses the different morphological characteristics of the species in this genus, which could be illustrated nicely by those images, but just having a gallery replicated in a section titled "gallery" that already exists on Commons isn't very useful. Cheers, --Rkitko (talk) 02:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. I've added a sisterproject box instead. Remember though that casual users won't necessarily know what "Commons" is, or how to find the pictures there. On the other hand, I agree with you that a decent article which these images would then relate to would be much preferable. :) Cheers, JN466 03:19, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height limit of Nicolai 

message: I am somewhat disappointed that there is no information as to climate zones for the bird of paradise.  I found another article elsewhere that stated 60 degrees was the lowest temperature that this plant could endure?  Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberrider1 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temperature acceptance? 

message: This article talks as if Strelitzia is found only in South Africa. We have the Nicolai species all over the place here in SW Florida (Naples). I have seen huge  beautifully trimmed trees on Martinique and Guadeloupe. I would guess it thrives throughout the Caribbean area. The short article on Nicolai mentions that it might be found in Central Mexico - that is it.
The nicolai grow like crazy. Ours the base is maybe 6' x 4'. It currently has 8 trunks, since 2009 we have removed 12 trunks. Our neighborhood association was considering taking them all out because there is so much maintenance on them.
I edited the article to point out why (sun)birds visit the flowers: the (horizontal) spathes hold water, and birds drink from them. I see mockingbirds drinking from the spathes on a daily basis, and have seen blue jays drinking a couple of times.
I think somebody from a Botany/Horticulture department who knows the journals should update this article. Way out of my league.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjheinz (talk • contribs) 20:49, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a lot of work. 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: SSC199 TY2