"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This type of bird-of-paradise has wide, paddle-shaped leaves and produces bright yellow blooms with blue ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Very few plants command attention in your home and garden like the unusual and captivating ...

Note to editors: Photos and other associated press materials can be found via Dropbox (password: heliconia). “The data that is stored in the herbarium is a scientific treasure that makes a project ...

Would you believe that an exotic Bird of Paradise, Strelitzia reginae, could be brought to bloom here in Staten Island in the middle of winter? Last August, Jeanne Keefe Hogan of Sunnyside, received a ...

Question: How do I plant and care for tropical bird of paradise? These are those very pretty flowering plants with banana-like leaves you see in San Diego or other places where it does not freeze.

Q: My bird-of-paradise plant is 25 years old and began blooming three years ago. A new flower recently started opening, as seen in the photo. - Laura Schumacker, Fullerton, N.D. A: Thanks, Laura, for ...

Q. I have a big-leaf bird of paradise, 8 to 10 feet tall, planted in the ground. I have had it about eight years, and it has never bloomed. What can I do to encourage flowers? The foliage is nice. -- ...

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. Heliconia plants are famed for ...