Very few plants command attention in your home and garden like the unusual and captivating bird-of-paradise plant. Nicknamed ...

Give your bird of paradise the love they deserve with a touch of intentional styling for a magnificent piece of statement foliage ...

Meet the Bird of Paradise, a tropical flower native to South Africa, known for its vibrant colours and striking bird-like appearance. Meet the Bird of Paradise, a tropical flower native to South ...

The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with extinction.

and bird of paradise flowers came from South Africa. Now a familiar part of the landscape, these species are among the tens of thousands of introduced plants present in Hawaii today. The vast ...

The orange bird of paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is one of the most recognized tropical plants in our island plant palette.

Heliconia plants are famed for their flowers, which come in a variety ... Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise. Others evoke lobster claws or toucan beaks.

Heliconia bella in Panama. This species was discovered and named by John Kress, an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and one of the authors of the new study.