Word of advice. Never, on a whim, decide to surprise your friends by shipping them a stunning gift of bird-of-paradise plants based on a picture you see in a catalog. when 'overnight shipping on dry ice' actually turns out to be ground shipping that takes 17 days, your friends will wonder why you went to so much trouble to send them a card that is accompanied by a puddle of smelly decaying vegetable matter.
an ornamental plant (Strelitzia reginae of the family Strelitziaceae) native to southern Africa that has scapes terminating in a horizontal bract from which emerges an upright flower having three orange or yellow sepals and three irregular blue petals
Eeeew! Advice taken.
Word of advice. Never, on a whim, decide to surprise your friends by shipping them a stunning gift of bird-of-paradise plants based on a picture you see in a catalog. when 'overnight shipping on dry ice' actually turns out to be ground shipping that takes 17 days, your friends will wonder why you went to so much trouble to send them a card that is accompanied by a puddle of smelly decaying vegetable matter.
an ornamental plant (Strelitzia reginae of the family Strelitziaceae) native to southern Africa that has scapes terminating in a horizontal bract from which emerges an upright flower having three orange or yellow sepals and three irregular blue petals