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Heliconias
Heliconia Twister purple (my name for it)
subgenus I'm uncertain
section I'm uncertain
- native to: Panama
- comment: I don't have an ID on this one, so I put Twister on it.
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We found this mystery heliconia alongside the highway in the Fortuna area.
This Twister is purple under the leaf and has a red rachis, distinguishing it from Twister yellow.
An intermediate variety in the wild with purple under the leaves and yellow rachis.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 2 - 3 meters
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- form: pendent
- orientation: spiral or contorted
- bract color: red
- rachis: Red, with a thin yellow line spiralling down the square angle.
- number of bracts: 10 - 12
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- accession number: 2000-03-15-01
- location: Panama, Chiriquí, Fortuna Divide
- elevation: 1100 meters
- climate: wet all year
- soil type: loam
- shade percent: 50 %
- habitat notes: Growing in the highway margin of otherwise undisturbed cloud forest.
- common at this location: Yes; also in intermediate variations of the yellow and purple I show here.
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- date planted: March 2000
- where planted: under guamo
- 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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