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May you always, may you always walk in hope
And may your days just be a way to walk upon a great high road
When the dark comes, when the dark comes through your door
Will you deny him, don't recognize him
He's not welcome anymore
In your life, in your life, in your life
And in the forest, in the forest when you hear
Something that scares you,
Be aware that it's frightened of you too
You can push that knot away, you can push that knot away
~ K.T. Tunstall, Push That Knot Away
Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. The genus is named after the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. The common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower, because of a supposed resemblance of its flowers to the bird of paradise. In South Africa it is commonly known as a crane flower.
The species S. nicolai is the largest in the genus, reaching 10 m tall; the other species typically reach 2 to 3.5 m tall, except S. caudata which is a tree of a typically smaller size than S. nicolai. The leaves are large, 30-200 cm long and 10-80 cm broad, similar to a banana leaf in appearance but with a longer petiole, and arranged strictly in two ranks to form a fan-like crown of evergreen foliage. The flowers are produced in a horizontal inflorescence emerging from a stout spathe. They are pollinated by sunbirds, which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers; the weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the bird's feet, which is then deposited on the next flower it visits.
Textures from the amazing leschick www.flickr.com/photos/leschick/
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and the incomparable Telzey www.flickr.com/photos/telzey/
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Featured on Explore 10/11/2008 #54
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For my Fiancée's birthday, we took a weekend trip to see Duran Duran at Red Rocks (awesome show BTW). We stayed in Golden, and a trip to the Colorado Railroad Museum was in order. Passing the Coor's plant, I saw the local building their outbound train. A nice MAC would lead the train back to Denver.