Family Name: Strelitziaceae
Common Name: Giant Bird Of Paradise,
                             Wild Banana

Description:
The palnt native to South African. Is a popular plant for tropical and sub-tropical landscapes. It is an enormous clump-forming evergreen that is tree-like or banana like in appearance. It has huge oblong, leathery, gray-green leaves that split along their horizontal margins.
These are clustered together and almost look fan-like in appearance. In early to mid spring several crested flowers of indigo, white and dark purple appear below their foliage.