3D-model – Strelitzia reginae

Author Ariel

2018-09-30

3D Models / Plants

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Strelitzia is one of the most popular ornamental plants around the world. In areas with warm winters this garden plant. In countries with a cold climate - container. And, besides this, the strelitzia flower is an indispensable attribute of compositions from cut flowers.
In southern Africa, the population calls strelitiya crane, in other countries, this amazingly flowering plant bears the name «bird of paradise».
Its popularity is due to the exotic form of the flower: towering on a long stem, the strelitzia flower resembles a flamingo bird with a tuft or a magic arrow-pointer.
The crane flower is a tufted, evergreen, acaulescent (stemless) perennial herb up to 1,5 m tall and 2 m in diameter. The roots are fleshy and finger-like and ± 25 mm in diameter. The leaves are distichous (opposite and arranged fan-like in one plane), banana-like with the leaf blade 500 x 100 mm, and the margins can sometimes be red-edged.

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