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Pentas is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.The genus is found in tropical and southern Africa, the Comoros, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula. [1]The plants have hairy green leaves and clusters of flowers in shades of red, white, pink, and purple.
The parrot seaperch (Callanthias ruber), also known as the bird of paradise fish or Eastern Atlantic groppo, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Callanthiidae, the splendid perches and groppos. This fish is found in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Pentas lanceolata, commonly known as Egyptian starcluster, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the madder family, Rubiaceae that is native to tropical Africa from Sudan to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique, as well as Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. [2]
Strelitzia, the scientific genus for the bird-of-paradise, is a perennial blooming plant native to tropical and subtropical regions of Southeast Africa. That said, it's been cultivated all over ...
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Birds-of-paradise range in size from the king bird-of-paradise at 50 g (1.8 oz) and 15 cm (5.9 in) to the curl-crested manucode at 44 cm (17 in) and 430 g (15 oz). The male black sicklebill , with its long tail, is the longest species at 110 cm (43 in).
The birds of paradise are thought to have originated 24–30 million years ago and belong to the radiation of passerines that occurred in Australia during the last 60 million years. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As Australia become more arid over the last several million years, the birds of paradise withdrew to the regional rainforests of New Guinea and ...
Strelitzia / s t r ɛ ˈ l ɪ t s i ə / [3] is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae. [4] A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower/plant, because of a resemblance of its flowers to birds-of-paradise. In South Africa, it is commonly known as a crane flower.