Travellers Palm - Ravenala Madagascarensis - Seeds Kohlrabi Nelumbium speciosum and Nymphaea nelumbo

Nelumbium speciosum and Nymphaea nelumbo

Zimbabwe and north into east Africa

solitary/clumps

Mound-forming plant with bristly white spines

A night flowering plant

Travellers Palm - Ravenala Madagascarensis - Seeds Kohlrabi Nelumbium speciosum and Nymphaea nelumboThe 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