Travellers Palm - Ravenala Madagascarensis - Seeds Kohlrabi commonly known as the Chinese

commonly known as the Chinese Elm or Lacebark Elm

Early-blooming

and 'Crown of Thorns'

often called Strawflower because of its stiff flower and stem

solitary/clumps

Travellers Palm - Ravenala Madagascarensis - Seeds Kohlrabi commonly known as the ChineseThe traveller's palm is another of the highly distinctive species from Madagascar. The traveller's palm gets its name from the water source for travellers that accumulates in many parts of the plant such as leaf folds, flower bracts and inside each of the hollow leaf bases . The traveller's palm is not a true palm, it is from the streliziaceae (bird of paradise) family. Multitudes of small creamy white flowers form an inflorescence up to 15 cm long. A