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Heliconias
Heliconia Jose Abalo hybrid (one)
subgenus I'm uncertain
section I'm uncertain
- native to: Panama to Nicaragua, the range of both parents.
- comment: Supposed hybrid of latispatha and imbricata. Called ``one'' because it is the first we collected. The second is slightly different.
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This is the first individual we collected.
At an early stage of blooming.
This individual has a nice red tint on the edge of the bracts.
The plant almost succumbed to some kind of root rot, but rhizomes and stems survived at the edges of the clump.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 5 - 6 meters
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- form: erect
- orientation: slow spiral (less than 90 deg. per bract)
- bract color: Pale orange/dark yellow, with slightly red tips
- rachis: green/orange
- number of bracts: 9
- comment: The inflorescence is strikingly beautiful.
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- accession number: 1999-08-19-0005
- location: Panama, Bocas del Toro province, Almirante Hwy.
- elevation: 10 meters
- climate: year-round rainfall
- shade percent: 40 %
- habitat notes: In stream gully along road that had not been cleared.
- common at this location: Not particularly common.
- associated species: latispatha, irrasa, pogonantha, longa, mariae
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- date planted: August 2000
- where planted: sector 5
- first flowering: 2001
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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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