Very few plants command attention in your home and garden like the unusual and captivating bird-of-paradise plant. Nicknamed for their crane-like flowers, these subtropical perennials, belonging ...

Heliconia plants are famed for their flowers ... Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise. Others evoke lobster claws or toucan beaks. Gardeners have cultivated ...

Crews are working nights replacing the ornamental plant-adorned carpeting with ... the car rental counters by Tuesday night. The bird-of-paradise carpeting's final stronghold: the original lower ...

Birds of paradise are found in New Guinea and surrounding islands. The manucodes and riflebirds species also dwell in Australia. Birds of paradise are so attractive that their appearance once made ...

Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.

putting the genus — which includes species such as bird-of-paradise look-alike Heliconia rostrata — in danger worldwide. The study, published in Plants, People, Planet, looked at the genus ...

(Jessica Damiano via AP) This July 5, 2020, image provided by Kelly Jo Sandri shows a large tractor seat plant, several ...

Here, the plants are important ecological resources ... 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.