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Heliconias
Heliconia beckneri Yellow Gyre
subgenus Heliconia
section Tortex
- native to: Costa Rica
- endemic: CR
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In 2003.
In 2003.
It really took off in 2005!
Lots of flowers.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 2 - 5 m meters
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- form: erect
- orientation: spiral
- bract color: yellow
- rachis: yellow
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- accession number: 2000-07-15-0001
- location: Costa Rica, Cerro de la Muerte, km. 121
- elevation: about 900m meters
- climate: Often foggy Pacific slope.
- shade percent: 50 %
- habitat notes: second growth in highway margin
- common at this location: yes
- associated species: lankesteri
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- date planted: July 2000
- where planted: section 5
- first flowering: 2002
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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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