Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Giant White Bird of Paradise-Do they EVER bloom?, 0 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
Thanks, Ann, and everyone..I'm thinking it may be a leaf..it doesn't resemble the blooms, but then not much about this BOP resembles the usual giants...Dave in Hawaii in fact thinks it is an African BOP called Strelitzia caudata that have more banana like leaves. It stands to reason that it may be a leaf as the position of the plant is askew from re-positioning and the top leaves where the new one usually emerges is far off to the left now.
Vosnner it does have more full sun, although this bird doesn't like the full sun. The first two years I had it in a pot so I could move it around and it did not do well in full sun, always had to move it back to half sun.

this is picture of it in 06..notice how banana like the leaves are compared to the usual bop leaves which usually stand up.