✿Strelitziaceae · Ravenala
Traveller's Palm
Ravenala madagascariensis
Shrub (Palm like )
- Habit
- Shrub (Palm like )
- Found in India
- Telangana, West Bengal, Gujarat & more
- Flowering
- September-May
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ravenala madagascariensis
- Genus
- Ravenala
- Family
- Strelitziaceae
- Habit
- Shrub (Palm like )
- Native to
- Madagascar
- Distribution
- Planted in tropics
- Found in India
- Telangana, West Bengal, Gujarat, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded“The large white flowers are structurally similar to those of its relatives, the bird-of-paradise flowers Strelitzia reginae and Strelitzia nicolai, but are generally considered les” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Traveller's Palm itself; the rest are typical of the Strelitziaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- পান্থপাদপ
- Tamil
- நீர்வாழை
- Malayalam
- രാവേനല
- Marathi
- पांथस्थचे झाड
About Traveller's Palm
Traveller's Palm (Ravenala madagascariensis) is a species in the Strelitziaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, West Bengal, Gujarat and 4 other states. Flowering and fruiting run from September to May.
Botanical family
Strelitziaceae
Bird Of Paradise
Traveller's Palm belongs to the Strelitziaceae family.
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