Strelitzia - which species is this?

[Mazat]

Taken from the compost at the gardener's last October.

It was too late to plant out, so we put it in a pot on the balcony.

What kind of Strelitzia is it?

[Mazat]

Some fronds were shorter, it seemed to us that there were several plants.

[Mazat]

the note on picture number 5 only says strelitzia and only that. it was attached to one of the plants at the time.

[Silas_Sancona]

45 minutes ago, Mazat said:

the note on picture number 5 only says strelitzia and only that. it was attached to one of the plants at the time.

Looks like regular ol' S. reginae  ( Orange BOP )  to me.. 

Curled leaves / overall dry-ish look = needs some warmth to arrive so it can start recovering / pushing new roots.. Have sliced n' diced these into various sized clumps n' pieces in the past ( A popular plant in our family everyone had in their yards / passed around ) and only had them fail to settle in / start regrowing when there was an issue with the base / roots.

 

[Mazat]

4 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Looks like regular ol' S. reginae  ( Orange BOP )  to me.. 

Curled leaves / overall dry-ish look = needs some warmth to arrive so it can start recovering / pushing new roots.. Have sliced n' diced these into various sized clumps n' pieces in the past ( A popular plant in our family everyone had in their yards / passed around ) and only had them fail to settle in / start regrowing when there was an issue with the base / roots.

 

thank you very much for your explanations. this is good to know. we hope they grow well. we had the last three days on the balconey always over 68 degrees fahrenheit.

[Fusca]

7 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Have sliced n' diced these into various sized clumps n' pieces in the past ( A popular plant in our family everyone had in their yards / passed around ) and only had them fail to settle in / start regrowing when there was an issue with the base / roots.

Nathan, can same thing be done with S. nicolai?  

[Silas_Sancona]

2 minutes ago, Fusca said:

Nathan, can same thing be done with S. nicolai?  

Never tried doing so myself but imagine they'd be about as simple as tearing up big clumps of Orange Birds or Bananas.

...Would probably be a bigger job / more care to get any divisions through a transplanting period due to how big they get though.

 

[Mazat]

Just as we were looking at the strelitzia, we noticed this smaller one. it was lying separately next to the large ones, Sabine remembered, and it also had roots.

perhaps a smaller species after all?

The leaves are much smaller and shorter

[Mazat]

4 minutes ago, Mazat said:

Just as we were looking at the strelitzia, we noticed this smaller one. it was lying separately next to the large ones, Sabine remembered, and it also had roots.

perhaps a smaller species after all?

The leaves are much smaller and shorter

the small one on the middle

[Silas_Sancona]

6 hours ago, Mazat said:

perhaps a smaller species after all?

Only 5 species in the genus..  S. reginae  being the smallest..



Is probably just a smaller offset from the same clump as the larger ones. 

[Mazat]

4 minutes ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Es gibt nur 5 Arten in der Gattung.  S. reginae   ist die kleinste. Ist wahrscheinlich nur ein kleinerer Ableger aus demselben Büschel wie die größeren. 


 

Yes, you're right. It makes more sense.

it's probably more the case that the grower has them in the greenhouse and it's a smaller clump.

of course we would have been happy to have an additional species, but we are grateful to have got this one.

Hope they grow well and flower 😄