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Heliconias
Heliconia Gaital (my name for it)
subgenus Heliconia
section Tortex
- native to: Panama, Cocle province, El Valle, Cerro Gaital
- endemic: PA
- comment: This may be a latispatha x lindsayana hybrid. Or it might be something completely different.
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Grows in the shade like H. lindsayana, but not like H. latispatha.
The leaves are strongly corrugated both above and below.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 2.4 meters
- leaf blade: 77 centimeters
- leaf blade: 75 - 25 L - W in centimeters
- color notes: dark petioles and lower midrib on some plants
- stems per clump: 1 to many
- comment: the leaves are deeply corrugated on both surfaces
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- form: erect
- orientation: spiral
- bract color: red, basal bract with green tip
- rachis: yellow, green basally
- number of bracts: 7
- overall length: 22, peduncle 20 centimeters
- bract size: 21 - 2.5, strongly pyramidal L - W in centimeters
- flower color: yellow, darker distally, 4.3cm
- flower form: slightly curved
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- accession number: 2005-01-28-01
- location: Panama, Cocle province, El Valle, Cerro Gaital
- elevation: 990 meters
- climate: Cloud forest, breezy at times, there is an elfin forest just at the top of the hill above this spot.
- soil type: loamy and soggy
- shade percent: 80 - 100 %
- habitat notes: Heavy epiphyte coverage all around. Primary forest. Quite wet all year due to cloudy weather in dry season.
- common at this location: Very.
- associated species: H. latispatha and lindsayana are not far away, ramonensis var. xanthotricha, irrasa
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- date planted: February 2005
- number of rhizomes: 1
- where planted: in pot, so far
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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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