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Heliconias
Heliconia Bushmaster hybrid
subgenus Griggsia
section I'm uncertain
- native to: Panama and Costa Rica
- comment: Alleged hybrid of H. pogonantha var. holerythra and H. mariae.
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Bushmonster might be a better name!
Leaves are held erect, and the older ones lacerate like mariae.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 8 meters
- leaf blade: 145 - 180 centimeters
- leaf blade: 240 - 60 to 285 - 65 L - W in centimeters
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- form: pendent
- orientation: slightly spiral
- bract color: red
- rachis: red
- number of bracts: 55 (!)
- bract size: 19 - 12 L - W in centimeters
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- accession number: 2004-06-18-01
- location: Panama, Bocas del Toro province, Almirante Hwy
- elevation: 10 meters
- climate: wet all year
- soil type: clayey
- shade percent: 30 - 50 %
- common at this location: Not too common, but can grow in big clumps.
- associated species: mariae, pogonantha, longa, imbricata, latispatha, wagneriana
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- date planted: June, 2004
- where planted: above Barriles near mariae
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- Carla Black
- Our other web page is http://www.volcanbaru.com
- e-mail: carla (at) heliconiagarden (.) com
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