Ravenala is a genus of flowering plants with a single species,
Ravenala madagascariensis, commonly known as the
traveller's tree,
traveller's palm or
East-West palm, from Madagascar. It is not a true palm (family Arecaceae) but a member of a monocotyledonous flowering plant family, Strelitziaceae. The genus is closely related to the southern African genus
Strelitzia and the South American genus
Phenakospermum. Some older classificatio
(Wikipedia)